[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#397930: cannot change passwd as root and user - cant switch from user to root with "su"

[Nicolas François]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:47:55PM +0100, Admin at net-spacy.com wrote:
> Good evening Nicolas François,
> 
> you wrote:
> 
> Nicolas François> Hello,
> 
> Nicolas François> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:21:03PM +0100, Net-Spacy wrote:
> >>   
> >>   Good Day, my Problem is, that i cant change passwd when im logged in
> >>   as root or normal user. the error-msg is following, when i would
> >>   change the passwd: 
> 
> Nicolas François> I think you have something wrong in your PAM configuration.
> 
> Nicolas François> Can you send the files
> Nicolas François> /etc/pam.d/su
> Nicolas François> /etc/pam.d/passwd 
> Nicolas François> /etc/pam.d/common-* (at least common-password and common-session)
> 
> Nicolas François> With a little chances, you can still use sudo to restore sane
> Nicolas François> configurations for PAM.
> 
> Nicolas François> Kind Regards,
> 
> thx for the fast answer - as attachment i have send you the requested
> files!

Good news: I don't see anything wrong with the files you sent.

Bad news: I don't understand what happen.

Do you remember if you recently change the PAM configuration?
Did you recently update a package?
Did you encounter a disk failure?

If you have debsums, can you try to run debsums libpam-modules libpam0g
(it checks wether the 
You may try to reinstall libpam-modules and libpam0g.

Some other questions:
 * did you install PAM by yourself without using the Debian packages?
 * does the problem occurs on the machine from which you sent the email (a
   Sarge machine)?
 * Do you have problems with other tools which use PAM (for example sudo,
   gdm, etc.)

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral