[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1004472: groupmem: make authentification clear and check interaction with PAM

[Miha Purg]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.13+dfsg1-3
Followup-For: Bug #1004472
X-Debbugs-Cc: miha.purg at canonical.com

Confirming that the issue still exists in unstable.

When trying to use the command as root, the user is prompted for root's password,
which doesn't seem to be the correct behavior.

The reason seems to be a missing PAM file for groupmems:
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/blob/master/etc/pam.d/groupmems

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/2039541

Best regards,
Miha



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  libaudit1       1:3.0.9-1
ii  libc6           2.36-9+deb12u3
ii  libcrypt1       1:4.4.33-2
ii  libpam-modules  1.5.2-6+deb12u1
ii  libpam0g        1.5.2-6+deb12u1
ii  libselinux1     3.4-1+b6
ii  libsemanage2    3.4-1+b5

Versions of packages passwd recommends:
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.17+nmu1

passwd suggests no packages.

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