[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#396241: login: Executing su cause an "invalid pointer" error

[Nicolas François]

Hello Frederic,

Do you have any news on this bug:


On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:37:01PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
> Hello Frédéric,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:01:07AM +0100, Frederic Schutz wrote:
> > 
> > >So, the question is: what is so special on *your* system that it
> > >happens there.
> > 
> > Nothing that I know or can think of. It is a relatively large Dell 
> > server, with a pure testing install with no backport (except for the 
> > ones I picked from unstable and which were close to entering testing 
> > anyway) or local packages installed.
> 
> It could be interesting to see your /etc/pam.d/su file (and the referenced
> common-* PAM files).
> 
> Can you also try "su - root" from a root account?
> 
> Can you try with only the pam_unix (and maybe pam_rootok) PAM modules?
> (those are IMO common and work nicely)

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral