Bug 70764

Summary:	pam-0.77-r1 breaks environment when you login via sshd and su -l to root
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexander Stoll <technoworx>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	PAM Gentoo Team (OBSOLETE) <pam-bugs+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	jat
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Stoll 2004-11-11 03:07:50 UTC

The changes in pam_env.conf for pam-0.77-r1 break environment when you log in via sshd as user and make "su -l" to root. A cd to $HOME fails because $HOME is no longer set...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. log in as user via sshd
2. make su -l to become root
3. type "cd" into Terminal



Expected Results:  
set complete enviroment as former versions

as a workaround set $HOME in your .profile

Comment 1 ic+gentoo 2004-11-14 06:20:23 UTC

I don't know if I need to report this as a new bug, but for the moment I will put the comment inhere. 
The changes to the /etc/security/pam_env.conf breaks also the X11 forwarding by setting the DISPLAY to the value host:0.0. A workaround is to comment the DISPLAY= ... line in the pam_env.conf. But this bug is very annoying since the X11 forwarding is VERY used.

Comment 2 J. Alexander Treuman 2004-11-26 16:53:35 UTC

The problem noted in #1 is covered by bug 70585. As for the submitted bug itself, I can't seem to reproduce it, and there's nothing in pam_env.conf that should cause it. Did you modify it at all? Perhaps you supply more details about your setup.

Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-25 11:47:10 UTC

This was a bug in shadow - please update to shadow-4.0.6 (i think) or even better
shadow-4.0.7.