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Bug 524805

Summary: The manual page for runuser is incorrect
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.4CC: azelinka
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: coreutils-5.97-28.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, the runuser utility man page contained incorrect information about PAM API calls. With this update, the documentation has been amended.
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Description Tomas Mraz 2009-09-22 09:52:48 UTC
The manual page for runuser is incorrect. It states that runuser does not call any PAM API calls. This is not true because at least the session calls are called. The manual page should be also more detailed about the other differences of runuser from su command.

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2009-09-22 13:25:32 UTC
Fixed in rawhide (coreutils-7.6-5.fc12) by https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2009-September/msg06573.html

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2009-11-06 18:43:54 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2010-08-09 18:18:29 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2011-01-11 20:15:21 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2011-01-11 22:21:59 UTC
This request was erroneously denied for the current release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  The error has been fixed and this
request has been re-proposed for the current release.

Comment 12 Tomas Capek 2011-07-13 12:14:23 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, the runuser utility man page contained incorrect information about PAM API calls. With this update, the documentation has been amended.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 10:36:32 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/RHBA-2011-1074.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 12:11:34 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/RHBA-2011-1074.html