[Pkg-shadow-devel] Login FAIL_DELAY error

[Nicolas François]

Hello,

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:53:20PM -0800, greisen at mail.prosser.wsu.edu wrote:
> 
> Debian testing - Bug #353994 is alive and well in Debian testing - lastest 
> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.  Problem - root login will fail IF 
> FAIL_DELAY is set - default listed was 3.  Commenting this out of the 
> login.defs file removes the root login failure.  There is no problem with 
> a normal user login.  Failures occur on either tty1 login or /bin/su - 
> login.

We didn't consider this report as a bug.

The users should have been warned during the upgrade that the login.defs
file changed.

Moreover, I can't reproduce the failure. It is only a warning on my box.
(If you really have a failure, this may be another issue)

The only change we could do is to clarify the warning message.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral