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  • From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] coreutils su problem ?
  • Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:19:43 -0400

Try reverting to code for 5.2.1, including the patch (if building from source and not doing dispel -d), and see if this helps. Apparently the patch I tried to redo for 5.3 is not good. I didn't find any patches on the 'net for 5.3.
Are you using PAM?

Treeve Jelbert wrote:
I have just encountered a problem when starting a service which worked previously.

I eventually traced it to
$ su firebird
su: user firebird does not exist


but
$grep "firebird" /etc/*
/etc/group:firebird:x:84:treeve
/etc/passwd:firebird:x:84:84:::
/etc/shadow:firebird:!:12992:0:99999:7:::

# useradd -u 84 firebird
useradd: user firebird exists


there appears to be a problem with su from coreutils-5.3.0






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