[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#905564: login: shows error about "ALWAYS_SET_PATH" which is supported by "su" from "util-linux"

[Martin Steigerwald]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.5-1.1
Severity: minor

Dear Andreas, dear maintainers,

for now I use "ALWAYS_SET_PATH" as mentioned in "NEWS.Debian" of "util-linux"
package in order to keep my backup script which needs root access and access
to a SSH agent running in a regular user session working. I intend to
configure sudo to take over the environment variables for SSH agent to
the root session at some time.

However, as long as that option is set, the "login" command complains about
it after entering the user name. You can see this easily by logging in on
a tty. Or by doing it on a shell, in this even before entering the user name:

somehost:~> LANG=C login
configuration error - unknown item 'ALWAYS_SET_PATH' (notify administrator)
somehost login: ^C

Expected results: No error message or warning as this is a configuration
option support by "su" from "util-linux" which shares the configuration file
"/etc/login.defs" with the "shadow" tools.

Thanks,
Martin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-rc5-tp520-btrfstrim+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libaudit1       1:2.8.3-1+b1
ii  libc6           2.27-5
ii  libpam-modules  1.1.8-3.7
ii  libpam-runtime  1.1.8-3.7
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.7

login recommends no packages.

login suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/login.defs changed:
MAIL_DIR        /var/mail
FAILLOG_ENAB		yes
LOG_UNKFAIL_ENAB	no
LOG_OK_LOGINS		no
SYSLOG_SU_ENAB		yes
SYSLOG_SG_ENAB		yes
FTMP_FILE	/var/log/btmp
SU_NAME		su
HUSHLOGIN_FILE	.hushlogin
ENV_SUPATH	PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
ENV_PATH	PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes
TTYGROUP	tty
TTYPERM		0600
ERASECHAR	0177
KILLCHAR	025
UMASK		022
PASS_MAX_DAYS	99999
PASS_MIN_DAYS	0
PASS_WARN_AGE	7
UID_MIN			 1000
UID_MAX			60000
GID_MIN			 1000
GID_MAX			60000
LOGIN_RETRIES		5
LOGIN_TIMEOUT		60
CHFN_RESTRICT		rwh
DEFAULT_HOME	yes
USERGROUPS_ENAB yes
ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512


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