Starting the kernel in single user mode I could work:
sh-2.05a# su USER bash-2.05a$ su root Password: ****** hurd:/#
So i tought.. the password sever is all right, the libc also, probably the error is something else..
Rebooted.. I tryed:
sh-2.05a# ps xa the password server isn't loaded yet!!
sh-2.05a# su USER
bash-2.05a$ ps xa
the password server isn't loaded again, and the system automatically load /hurd/pflocal /hurd/magic tty
bash-2.05a$ su root Password: ****** hurd:/# ps xa the same as USER
to be sure i typed:
hurd:/# su USER hurd:/$ su root Password: ****** hurd:/# exit hurd:/$ exit
the su command use the password server!
hurd:/# login USER Password: ****** login: Authentication failure: (ipc/mig) server died hurd:/# login login> ps xa ho, password server is loaded!!
login> login root Password: ****** login: Authentication failure: (ipc/mig) server died hurd:/#
so - maybe only in single user mode - the password server is loaded only when a program need it!!
so, the bug is in "login", not in password, and that's why "su" works!!
M. Gerards wrote:
Yes, maybe upgrading hurd from linux(it's the only thing i can do, dpkg don't want to upgrade hurd from hurd!), is the solution..I had this problem before but I couldn't figure out which package was the problem. I know a newer glibc, Hurd, etc doesn't have this problem. Perhaps you can upgrade from GNU/Linux... There is a dpkg-hurd script that can be used for that... I think.
I thought gnu-latest was the really latest release..
