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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: su root broken in -CURRENT
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:15:38 +0200
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Hi folks,

I've completed a pretty clean crossgrade [1] to -CURRENT and find that
su is broken.  I thought this had been fixed.

I have a virgin rev 1.17 /etc/pam.conf, I'm in group wheel, I built
world with no funky options, the su binary (built from su rev 1.39)
really is setuid root and yet I get the amazingly helpful error message:

   su: Sorry

without being prompted for a password.  /var/log/messages contains the
infinitely more helpful error message

   su: pam_authenticate: Permission denied

So what's up?

Ciao,
Sheldon.

[1] I can't bring myself to call the process of converting from
    4.3-STABLE to 5.0-CURRENT an "upgrade".

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