Package: util-linux Version: 2.32-0.4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Running "su -" or "su -l" or "su --login" makes use of /etc/pam.d/su-l which revokes *all* keys in the session keyring. This can be unexpected in situations where the key is utilised by the invoking user (for example, to access an encrypted file system as happened in my case; see https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/3860). Hence, at the very least it needs to be documented. It is indeed unfortunate that a single command "su" is used in a large number of different ways and contexts in scripts across diverse systems *without* consideration of the semantics. However, any such change is bound to cause breakage and documentation is the best way to avoid flames! Regards, Kapil. -- -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-17554-g9194949d4df2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii fdisk 2.32-0.3 ii libaudit1 1:2.8.3-1+b1 ii libblkid1 2.32-0.3 ii libc6 2.27-5 ii libmount1 2.32-0.3 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.7 ii libselinux1 2.8-1+b1 ii libsmartcols1 2.32-0.3 ii libsystemd0 239-7 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20180714-1 ii libudev1 239-7 ii libuuid1 2.32-0.3 ii login 1:4.5-1.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: ii dosfstools 4.1-2 ii kbd 2.0.4-4 pn util-linux-locales <none> -- no debconf information -- Kapil Hari Paranjape
