Bug#350040: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#350040: Simplify the investigation for this bug

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

Dnia 27-02-2006, pon o godzinie 07:43 +0100, Christian Perrier
napisał(a):
> The settings originally described by Jeff in this bug report are not
> mandatory to reproduce the bug.
> 
> Simply trying to execute "exec login root" from a non root login shell
> in a VC is enough to get the "No utmp entry.  You must exec "login"
> from the lowest level "sh"" message.
> 
> "exec login" does not work either....

And it can't work because .. login isn't suid root. Without suid root
you can't do this. Also usualy /etc/pam.d/login uses pam_securetty PAM
module which forces login for root user only from tty's listed
in /etc/securetty. So in case typical PAMified login adding suid root
also can't help.

Use su or sudo for gain root login.

This is not a bug and IMO this case can be closed.

kloczek