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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Mar 12, David Brown [dmlb2000 AT gmail.com] wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> wrote:
> > On Mar 12, Jeremy Blosser [jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org] wrote:
> > > On Mar 12, Ladislav Hagara [ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz] wrote:
> > > > > Did you allow them to get restored to /etc/shadow by the one-time
> > > > > prompt to
> > > > > fix that bug, or no? That is, are they still in /etc/passwd from 
> > > > > the last
> > > > > bug, or is this happening again?
> > > >
> > > > It is another box and "sorcery system-update" was really unattended so
> > > > only default answers.
> > > > Just found out that /etc/pam.d/login is missing.
> > > > I will try to restore it.
> > >
> > > These two things (plain passwords and no pam.d/login) make me suspicious
> > > shadow failed to install correctly and was left dispelled.  Can you 
> > > confirm
> > > if shadow is currently installed?
> >
> > Yeah, I think I'm right; from a cast of current test shadow:
> >
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/shadow-4.0.17'
> > `etc/limits' -> `/etc/limits'
> > `etc/login.access' -> `/etc/login.access'
> > `etc/login.defs' -> `/etc/login.defs'
> > `etc/useradd' -> `/etc/default/useradd'
> > Something went wrong with adding the group users with gid 1000
> > so going to stop here...
> >  ! Problem Detected !
> > INSTALL failed!
> > INSTALL failed!
> > Creating compile log /var/log/sorcery/compile/shadow-4.0.17.bz2
> > Creating castfs debug log
> > /var/log/sorcery/compile/shadow-4.0.17.castfs.dbglog.b
> > z2
> >
> > Spells that encountered problems:
> > ---------------------------------
> > shadow
> >
> 
> Yeah I saw the same thing on my box with this recent shadow update.  I
> had to compile it without pam support for it to succeed then things
> (like logging in) worked.
> 
> Haven't had time to mess with why or how if you remove the `>
> /dev/null 2>&1` part of the groupadd command in libaccount it spits
> something out about pam authentication failure.

Hrm then this may go back even farther than the commits I reverted, it
could be fallout from 1cacf5cbe4a6705b2c10b0a5a8e616965e12323f / bug 13600.

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