[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#600755: Bug#600755: Autologin fails with login from shadow > 4.1.3.1

[Frank Peters]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:29:01 +0100
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net> wrote:

> 
> I did not reproduce this.
> Could you check if there are some information logged in /var/log/syslog or
> /var/log/auth.log.
> 

The problem has been solved on the Gentoo bug tracker:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324419

It was a configuration issue.  Including the console device
for the CONSOLE option in login.defs causes the login program
to fail:

CONSOLE console:tty1:tty2:tty3:tty4

But shouldn't this still be considered a bug?  The previous
versions of login did not have trouble when reading the
same login.defs configuration file.