Debian Bug Tracking System writes: > After investigation and advices from the shadow maintenance team and > the upstream author, it has been concluded, mostly to Tomasz Klockzko > that this bug is not to be considered a bug. > > Haining root access should be made with su or sudo in these days where > login is PAMified.
Hi, Please re-open this *bug*. I do not agree with your conclusion because long standing functional behavior is being arbitrarily removed. Note that I work from an xterm using an alternate root (uid=0) login. Using sudo as an alternative is out of the question. Using su is possible, but it can be easily detected when su is invoked with the --login option. So, is this a bug in su? And I don't yet know what other infelicities will be detected using su. I just want the prior *reasonable* and *well known* behavior of login to be restored. At the very least, please leave this bug open, even if you don't yet have plans to fix it. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
