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Bug 445697

Summary: pam_tally and su problem
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Patrick Dung <patdung100+redhat>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 4.6CC: jlau, twaugh
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2008-0780 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-08-14 13:42:51 UTC Type: ---
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Description Flags
/etc/pam.d/system-auth with pam_tally none

Description Patrick Dung 2008-05-08 15:50:20 UTC 
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Description of problem:
After pam_tally is used in /etc/pam.d/system-auth,
then if user su to another user, the fail loggin attempt will be increment.
Even if the correct password is entered.

An other people also reported this problem in the mailing list:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/pam-list/2008-March/msg00000.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pam-0.77-66.23

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
Please see the description.

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2008-05-12 13:11:07 UTC 
Can you please attach your /etc/pam.d/system-auth here?
Comment 2 Patrick Dung 2008-05-13 13:17:55 UTC 
Created attachment 305235 [details]
/etc/pam.d/system-auth with pam_tally
Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2008-05-15 18:17:10 UTC 
This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression.  

Since no regressions are allowed between releases, 
it is also being proposed as a blocker for this release.  

Please resolve ASAP.
Comment 8 Ondrej Vasik 2008-08-14 13:43:26 UTC 
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 therefore 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/RHSA-2008-0780.html