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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:42:28 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>, "" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: su(1) problem on -current
Message-ID:  <20021216173131.O31211-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20021215202040.GB10636@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <1039973731.751.11.camel@darth-laptop> <20021215195157.H58191-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> <20021215202040.GB10636@walton.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, David Malone wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 08:00:55PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > Confirmed. in su.c it seems that pam_authenticate is returning
> > PAM_AUTH_ERR, when it presumably should not be doing so.
>
> Try getting rid of the auth_as_self in /etc/pam.d/su for the
> pam_wheel module.

This fixes it. Although I don't understand why this wasn't needed until
recently.

Is there any reason to have the default pam su config contain
auth_as_self? It just seems to introduce yet another (and quite annoying)
incompatibility between 4.x and 5.x without achieving anything obvious.

Maybe we could get auth_as_self removed from pam_wheel in /etc/pam.d/su?

Gavin

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