tags 407497 unreproducible thanks Quoting Jan Braun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: passwd > Version: 1:4.0.18.1-6 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > I had upgrades of logcheck and sash fail because they use chfn and chsh > (respectively) in their postinst script, and these ask for a password > even when invoked by root. > This causes a hang since the postinst script doesn't seem to be in > control of the terminal, and I can't enter anything at all; the only > way out is killing chsh/chfn from another console. But even without > that, I'd probably confused by a Password: prompt expecting a root > password in the middle of a "sudo aptitude upgrade" run.
Could you send your /etc/pam.d/chsh and /etc/pam.d/chfn files? It's pretty likely that you're missing the following in these: # This allows root to change user shell without being # prompted for a password auth sufficient pam_rootok.so On my system, using the default provided PAM config files: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> chsh --shell /bin/sh spongebob [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>
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