I had a look through some of the upstream releases of PAM between 0.79
and 0.99. unix_chkpwd stopped being installed setuid root in PAM
0.99.1.0 (released 27 September 2005). Although unremarked upon in the
ChangeLog file, this corresponds with the adoption of the automake build
system.
Since unix
reassign 437505 libpam-runtime
found 437505 0.99.7.1-1
thanks
Looks like unix_checkpwd is no longer setuid in PAM from experimental,
which means it can no longer read /etc/shadow.
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Justification: renders package unusable
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I am trying out the new version of PAM (0.99.7) from experimental. Ever
since I upgraded libpam-modules and libpam-runtime, I have been unable
to unlo
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