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

On Mar 12, Jeremy Blosser [jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org] wrote:
> On Mar 12, David Brown [dmlb2000 AT gmail.com] wrote:
> > On 3/12/07, Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> wrote:
> > > 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.

Wait, this makes sense: You can't groupadd from shadow's install during an
upgrade; shadow is dispelled at that point and groupadd's auth chain is not
going to work!

Nothing to do with the 13600 fix in that case.

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