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

[Nicolas François]

Hello,


Do you have some news about this bug?

Can you still reproduce it?

There are currently not enough information to investigate it or reassign
it to PAM, so I will probably close it next week.

You can find the original bug report below.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:21:03PM +0100, admin at net-spacy.com wrote:
> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge9
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> 
> Versions of packages passwd depends on:
> ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libpam-modules        0.76-22            Pluggable Authentication Modules f
> ii  libpam0g              0.76-22            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
> ii  login                 1:4.0.3-31sarge9   system login tools
> 
> -- debconf information:
>   passwd/password-mismatch:
>   passwd/username:
>   passwd/password-empty:
> * passwd/make-user: false
>   passwd/md5: false
> * passwd/shadow: true
>   passwd/username-bad:
>   passwd/user-fullname:
>   
>   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: 
> -
>   Server:/var/log# passwd
>   passwd: Permission denied
> -
>   The next problem is, that i cant switch to su from normal user -
>   following msg are displayed: 
> -
> su: Module is unknown
> Sorry.
> -
>   Here is a short error-msg from the /var/log/auth.log
> 
>  Nov 10 00:20:05 Server2 passwd[1630]: PAM pam_parse: expecting return
>  value; [...common-password]
>  Nov 10 00:20:05 Server2 passwd[1630]: PAM (other) no module name
>  supplied
>  Nov 10 00:20:05 Server2 passwd[1630]: PAM (other) illegal module type:
>  @include
>  Nov 10 00:20:05 Server2 passwd[1630]: PAM pam_parse: expecting return
>  value; [...common-session]
>  Nov 10 00:20:05 Server2 passwd[1630]: PAM (other) no module name
>  supplied
>  Nov 10 00:20:06 Server2 passwd[1630]: PAM no modules loaded for
>  `passwd' service
> 
> -
> 
>  I hope you can help me! Please contact me: admin at net-spacy.com
> 
>  Greetings