[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#330852: login: Critical error - immediate abort

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 330852 libpam0g
severity 330852 important
thanks

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:55:36PM -0700, David M. Dowdle wrote:
> Package: login
> Version: 1:4.0.12-5
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software

> based on description of probl;em and resolution found in 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/09/msg02354.html
> and that 
> clouded:/# ls -l /bin/login
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 31208 Sep 28 11:01 /bin/login
> clouded:/# date

> betting login is cuasing this problem
> The following exit with the message "Critical error - immediate 
> abort"
> ssh to machine  (note that ssh <machine> -t bash lets you in)
> cron

Er, you're apparently basing that conclusion on a 6-year-old report about a
problem which doesn't actually resemble yours.

And neither ssh nor cron have *anything* to do with /bin/login.  Which
doesn't make this a critical bug in login, it makes it impossible that it's
a bug in login.

The error message in question comes from a PAM_ABORT return from the
Linux-PAM library, which has also just been upgraded in unstable; and I see
that you're running the newest version.  However, this error is not
reproducible here, or on the systems of most other users, so I'll need
information about the contents of your /etc/pam.d/ configuration in order to
debug it.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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