From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050227 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-2 Description of problem: The first issue is that su does not set the pam tty variable. This is needed for auditing among other things. Next, if there was a problem with init groups, session close must be called since session open can mount drives. The pam credentials should not be set in the child since the parent will need to dispose of credentials later. If there is a fork error, pam credentials need to be deleted and the session closed. The parent needs to delete the pam credentials before it ends pam. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.2.1-44 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install the latest pam 2. do a su - root 3. look in the audit log what tty the other items are based on code review Actual Results: terminal=? Expected Results: terminal=pts/5 Additional info:
Created attachment 113197 [details] patch fixing problems described herein
Thanks. Fixed in CVS.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-540.html