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

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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