[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#998694: Don't timeout if you haven't asked for password yet

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.8.1-1.1

(/usr/share/doc/login/copyright says
This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the shadow utilities.

It was downloaded from: <ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/>.
As of May 2007, this site is no longer available.)

OK, I'll report the bug here:

Let's say the system is so overloaded that...

Login: root

Login timed out after 60 seconds

Yes, that's right, even before the password prompt appeared!

So that timeout will prevent access to the whole system!

So: at least don't timeout if you haven't asked for password yet!

Thanks.