[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

[walt]

On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote:

> Here is what I see on both machines:
>
> $su
> Password: <===== I type Ctrl-d here
> Segmentation fault
>
> I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed
> to return a charstring containing the typed password, but it instead
> returns a null pointer when I type Ctrl-d. Calamity ensues.

The key here is the pam_ssh package, which apparently the rest of you
don't use for authentication.  I've added "auth sufficient pam_ssh.so"
to the pam system-auth file so I can ssh between local machines using
my ssh private key for authentication.

Thanks for testing.