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

[Nicolas François]

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