Bug 228105

Summary:	netboot-sparc64-20070724.img provides shadow without pam support
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Matt M <madhat>
Component:	Netboot	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matt M 2008-06-18 15:20:07 UTC

The SPARC64 netboot image from 20070724 (found at http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc64/) provides shadow-utils without PAM support, making it impossible to 'su -'. In particular, if the system is installed without updating this package and including PAM support, one can be locked out of the root account when logging in as an ordinary user. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a SPARC64 system using the provided netboot image. 
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Actual Results:  
Unable to 'su -'.

Expected Results:  
Should be able to 'su -' to any user, including root.

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-18 15:39:29 UTC

Uhh, what? The netboot image uses busybox and automatically logs you in as root. There is no shadow package.

Comment 2 Matt M 2008-06-18 15:43:48 UTC

My mistake! It's possible I should've filed this as a bug in the stage3 tarball. I remember that once I installed the tarball, built the kernel, and rebooted, I couldn't 'su -' to anything.