Bug 57221

Summary: initscripts and sulogin do not accept password correctly
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: bk299
Component: SysVinitAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description bk299 2001-12-07 04:26:57 UTC
Description of Problem:
With the following line in /etc/inittab
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
sulogin does not correctly accept the input passwords or CTRL-D when init 1
or init S are invoked.  From this point on, the only way to do anything
usable is to reboot and I haven't checked to see if it will take a password
when booting into single user mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-5.84.1-1
kernel-source-2.4.9-12
SysVinit-2.78-17

How Reproducible:
place above line in inittab, goto userlevel 1 or S, problem should be
immediately apparent.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. init 1
2. sulogin then prompts for password
3. declares any input password to be invalid, does not accept CTRL-D

Actual Results:
declares password invalid, re-prompts.  If you put a space infront of your
password it will dump you out to a useless shell prompt.

Expected Results:
Expected to log in single user mode after being prompted for root password

Additional Information:
	
not at the moment...

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-12-13 17:36:07 UTC
This should be fixed with the 2.11f-17 util-linux update.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54741 ***