Bug 19915 - During an upgrade from 6.0 to 7, the PAM configuration is broken
Summary: During an upgrade from 6.0 to 7, the PAM configuration is broken
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: pam
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-27 15:15 UTC by Panic
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-30 20:54:10 UTC
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Description Panic 2000-10-27 15:15:49 UTC 
An upgrade from 6.0 to 7 breaks the PAM configuration, resulting in the
inability to log in after the upgrade.  6.0 is confirmed, and 6.1 is
probable.  I haven't checked 6.2 yet (and that may be a while), nor have I
researched this thoroughly.  I'll update when I get a chance.

Booting with "linux single" and re-running authconfig fixes the problem for
both of the customers that I've dealt with on this issue.
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-10-30 20:54:08 UTC 
Upgrades don't correctly detect if shadow passwords are disabled, and they are
enabled by default.  This does not show up on fresh installations because
authconfig is run by the installer to toggle these settings.  A test version of
the package which correctly handles this transition is at
http://people.redhat.com/nalin/test/.  Please see if it fixes the problems
you're seeing.
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-02-12 20:19:50 UTC 
Corrected in the errata release.
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