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Description of problem: In the access control tests when access is denied we got "su: Permission denied" on RHEL7.0. But, there is a difference in su output on rhel6.6 and rhel7.0 /var/log/secure always shows "Access denied" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -qf /bin/su coreutils-8.4-37.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sssd as the client authenticating with users from AD Server 2. Setup access control in sssd.conf 3. Try to auth as denied user Actual results: On RHEL6.6: # su --shell /bin/sh nobody sh-4.1$ su user2_dom1@sssdad.com Password: su: incorrect password sh-4.1$ On RHEL7.0: # su --shell /bin/sh nobody sh-4.2$ su user1_dom2@sssdad_tree.com Password: su: Permission denied sh-4.2$ Expected results: "su: Permission denied" on RHEL6.6 Additional info:
If you take a closer look, you will see RHEL 7 su is from util-linux package and on RHEL 6 it is from coreutils. I don't think you can expect the consistency in such small details like message format. In my opinion, this is not a bug, we should not change such messages within major release, as it would break customer scripts checking for "incorrect password" string. Please provide more information why this change is required if you want this bugzilla reopened.
My team has automation scripts which tests for user access denials. I was looking to have consistency between rhel6 and 7. This is not really a blocker for me as I can fix my scripts to make it work on all OSes. But, I logged this bug because it seemed "su: incorrect password" is wrongfully returned when password was correct but access was denied.
Permission denied probably comes from PAM. Incorrect password comes from su. Different code, different handling - same functionality in most cases. Tests have to be written to deal with both possibilities, otherwise, they are fragile. We can't change this in su.c (btw. differences: util-linux (2.22.2) su.c : 689 lines of code, coreutils (8.4) su.c: 943 lines of code - diff shows: 395 lines added, 649 lines removed - so pretty much complete rewrite.)