On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:59, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something in your login chain is setting SIGCHLD to ignore. Check your > shell, terminal, etc.
Thanks for the information. I am using pam 0.77 that I compiled myself (Debian is still at 0.76). 0.77 changes the code for running unix_chkpwd to set SIGCHLD to ignore, it sets it back again later but there seems to be a bug in this code. Adding the option "noreap" to the pam_unix.so line in /etc/pam.d/common-auth fixed this (giving pam 0.76 functionality in regard to SIGCHLD). I don't think that the same problem would occur on a non-SE Linux system (or a system running an older version of my SE Linux policy) as it will permit direct /etc/shadow access and not need unix_chkpwd to be run from the login process. Also I have not compiled pam 0.77 for woody, so the problems experienced by woody users could not be related unless someone else has built it.
