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On 01/18/2010 02:14 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: |
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> 2010/1/18 walt<w41ter@×××××.com>: |
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>> Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your |
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>> results? |
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>> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you |
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>> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. |
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>> What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear |
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>> with me ;) |
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> su: Authentication information cannot be recovered |
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>> Thanks for your help. |
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> |
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> What did I win? :-) |
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Congratulations, you just won my evil spirits. Please come pick them |
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up ASAP, as they're getting hungry. |
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The evil spirits in my x86 and ~amd64 machines seem to be outvoted by |
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4:1 (so far). |
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Here is what I see on both machines: |
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$su |
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Password: <===== I type Ctrl-d here |
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Segmentation fault |
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I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed |
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to return a charstring containing the typed password, but it instead |
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returns a null pointer when I type Ctrl-d. Calamity ensues. |
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I've filed a gentoo bug report that has generated only puzzlement so |
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far, and I guess your responses explain why. I have evil spirits in |
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my two machines, and you don't. |
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