Bug 134655 - pam_env requires /etc/environment to exist
Summary: pam_env requires /etc/environment to exist
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pam
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Whiteboard:
: 133564 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 134551
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-05 13:55 UTC by David Juran
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-10-06 03:51:20 UTC
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Description David Juran 2004-10-05 13:55:12 UTC 
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Description of problem:
pam_env, which is by default called from system_auth, requires the
file /etc/environment to exist. This file however is not part of the
distribution. Therefor it is e.g. not possible to do rsh to the system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pam-0.77-56

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rsh ams
Critical error - immediate abort
rlogin: connection closed.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2004-10-05 18:16:12 UTC 
Can you give a bit more information on how you determined that
/etc/enviroment was needed by pam_env? Does this show up as an error
when it tried to run?
Comment 2 David Juran 2004-10-05 18:54:55 UTC 
A quick look in the sourcecode for pam gave me the hint that this was
the case. And then
touch /etc/environment
remedied the problem (-:
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2004-10-06 03:51:20 UTC 
This is fixed in current setup packages.
Comment 6 Tomas Mraz 2004-10-08 07:53:48 UTC 
*** Bug 133564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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