Bug 44107

Summary:	/bin/login is not setuid to root
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <felixadv>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.1
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Need Real Name 2001-06-11 13:15:15 UTC

Description of Problem:
I cannot use login in a shell to login to another account.
The error message says that the password has expired. 
I eventually tracked this down in the source for /bin/login.
It just means that /bin/login has failed to access the /etc/shadow
file since it is not setuid to root.

This problem appears in both 7.0 and 7.1. The rpm shows that /bin/login
is not setuid to root.

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Comment 1 Erik Troan 2001-06-11 16:29:06 UTC

This feature has been disabled in Red Hat (since Red Hat 4.0) because it
conflicts with PAM session management.