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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] disaster recovery
  • Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:36:57 -0500

On Mar 13, Ladislav Hagara [ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz] wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this helps, but roughly three weeks ago I re-casted
> > shadow. The cast completed successfully, but somehow it removed
> > /etc/pam.d/su . So I was not able to switch to root. I did ssh
> > root@localhost and fixed that.
>
> Yea, I remember I had the same problem.
> I wanted to investigate it but I had no time so just fixed it on my box.
>
> Looking to HISTORY, it was probably on 2007-01-20, pam.d/su was moved
> from shadow to coreutils.
> PATCHLEVELs were updated so probably coreutils was recasted and the file
> /etc/pam.d/su was owned by both shadow and coreutils.
> Then shadow was recasted and file /etc/pam.d/su was removed.
>
> Was it problem only of our two boxes?
> Do only we two use test grimoire? :-)

I've seen this one and it's not just in test, it's in stable. I hadn't had
time to look into it yet and it's pretty simple to fix. Your diagnosis is
probably correct. Should shadow get a (conditional) force_depends for
coreutils?

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