> Try using the x command (an Hurdish su, but I don'r remeber if it is > installed by default), you should be able to get the lovely > authentication failure message there. =) To find the bug though you > should compile things with debugging symbols and run the evil programs > in gdb.
I assume you mean the password server with the evil program. The password server is the one who dies and needs to be debugged. I don't see any changes to the password server and its interfaces in CVS... I think another debian package caused this, I remember a change to /etc/passwd or something like that. (This is just a guess, but I hope it helps :)).
