Bug 44107 - /bin/login is not setuid to root
Summary: /bin/login is not setuid to root
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: util-linux
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Erik Troan
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-06-11 13:15 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-06-11 16:29:13 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-06-11 13:15:15 UTC 
Description of Problem:
I cannot use login in a shell to login to another account.
The error message says that the password has expired. 
I eventually tracked this down in the source for /bin/login.
It just means that /bin/login has failed to access the /etc/shadow
file since it is not setuid to root.

This problem appears in both 7.0 and 7.1. The rpm shows that /bin/login
is not setuid to root.

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Comment 1 Erik Troan 2001-06-11 16:29:06 UTC 
This feature has been disabled in Red Hat (since Red Hat 4.0) because it
conflicts with PAM session management.
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