Bug 748215

Summary:	coreutils requires pam >= 1.1.3-7
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bruce Jerrick <bmj001>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	kdudka, maxamillion, ovasik, twaugh
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Description Bruce Jerrick 2011-10-23 05:54:11 UTC

Description of problem:
The "Requires: pam" of coreutils is inadequate -- /etc/pam.d/su does an
 'include' of postlogin, but /etc/pam.d/postlogin did not exist until
 pam-1.1.3-7 .
Without /etc/pam.d/postlogin, /bin/su will fail:

  su: cannot not open session: Permission denied

with an error message in /var/log/secure:

  ... su: PAM _pam_load_conf_file: unable to open /etc/pam.d/postlogin

So the requires line in th spec file should be:
  Requires: pam >= 1.1.3-7

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-8.12-2.fc16.i686
(Note: Same problem exists in util-linux-2.20-1.fc16.i686; a separate
 report has been filed against util-linux .)

This is not likely to happen on a standard spin.  And during OS install,
/etc/pam.d/postlogin is replaced by a symlink to a generated postlogin-ac .
But by examining the following, it is apparent that coreutils really does
need postlogin, and that postlogin first appeared in pam-1.1.3-7:

  $ grep postlogin /etc/pam.d/su
  $ rpm -q --changelog pam-1.1.4-4.fc16 | grep -B1 postlogin
  $ rpmls pam-1.1.4-4.fc16 | grep postlogin

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2011-10-23 10:30:30 UTC

Just to be sure ... as you mention "This is not likely to happen on a standard spin.", you don't expect F16 primary arch update just for this - so just commit&build in F16&Rawhide with fixed requirements should be fine, right?

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2011-10-24 14:54:30 UTC

Anyway, thanks, versioned requires added in coreutils-8.12-4.fc16 and coreutils -8.14-3.fc17, closing RAWHIDE. 
If you think that F16 update in bodhi is required, feel free to write it here, I'll do it - but I don't think it makes sense just for fixing requires (which are usually ok, if you have up2date packages).