[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#472986: [SPAM?] Re: Bug#472986: /bin/su: su segfaults with libpam-p11 activated in /etc/pam.d/common-auth

Jerome Alet jerome.alet at ac-nice.fr
Fri Apr 11 13:09:35 UTC 2008


Nicolas François wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:57:40AM +0200, jerome.alet at ac-nice.fr wrote:
>> Nicolas François wrote:
>>> Could you also test if the bug is fixed in the new version 1:4.1.1-1?
>> No it's not fixed in 1:4.1.1-1.
> 
> Thanks for checking.
> 
> 
>> With SYSLOG_SU_ENAB set to yes and the SULOG_FILE defined, nothing gets  
>> written to the file : the segfault occurs before. When deactivating the  
>> pkcs11 stuff, I've checked that this file gets correctly written to when  
>> using su.
> 
> Commenting the SULOG_FILE line might fix this bug.
> 
> Could you check this?

I've checked again, because I think SULOG_FILE commented out with 
SYSLOG_SU_ENAB set to yes is the default : still segfaults.

> If it still fails, could you check disabling SYSLOG_SU_ENAB?

same result : segfault.

> 
> Are there also some lines related to su?
> I'm looking for messages like:
>   su[...]: FAILED su for foo by bar

None.

Thanks for your time.

hth

Jerome Alet





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