Your message dated Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:49:40 +0200
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and subject line Re: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#579403: logcheck fail to authinticate
root password
has caused the Debian Bug report #579403,
regarding logcheck fail to authinticate root password
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: logcheck
Version: 1.3.8
Severity: important
when invoke cmd [naths]#logcheck -o -t" gives logcheck should not be run
as root. Use su to invoke logcheck: su -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/sbin/logcheck -o
-t" logcheck Or use sudo: sudo -u logcheck logcheck -o -t. invoke now cmd $ su
-s /bin/bash -c "/usr/sbin/logcheck -o -p -t" logcheck ask for password. After
giving root password show " su: Authentication failure" thanks,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii cron 3.0pl1-109 process scheduling daemon
ii exim4 4.71-4 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tran 4.71-4 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.13 Programs for locking and unlocking
ii logtail 1.3.8 Print log file lines that have not
ii mime-construct 1.10 construct/send MIME messages from
ii rsyslog [system-log-daemon] 4.6.2-1 enhanced multi-threaded syslogd
Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii logcheck-database 1.3.8 database of system log rules for t
Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
pn syslog-summary <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
notfound 579403 1.3.8
thanks
naths wrote:
when invoke cmd [naths]#logcheck -o -t" gives logcheck should not be run
as root. Use su to invoke logcheck: su -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/sbin/logcheck -o
-t" logcheck Or use sudo: sudo -u logcheck logcheck -o -t. invoke now cmd $ su
-s /bin/bash -c "/usr/sbin/logcheck -o -p -t" logcheck ask for password. After
giving root password show " su: Authentication failure" thanks,
You have to run the su command as root not as user. If you run the
command as user, su ask you for the password of the logcheck user (see
'man 1 su' for details), which is not set, thus su can not authenticate.
As this is no bug I close it.
Greetings
Hannes
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