Package: login Version: 4.1.4 Severity: normal My system is Gentoo, but Gentoo uses the shadow package that is maintained by Debian and it is appropriate to make a report here.
I have been using the following autologin procedure on my machine to avoid passwords for some time without problems: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Passwordless_Login However, using any version of shadow greater than 4.1.3.1 causes this autologin procedure to fail. The system will only hang at boot and there are no errors logged. The trouble begins with login from shadow-4.1.4. Any login taken from shadow-4.1.3.1 or earlier allows the autologin procedure to succeed. There have been some changes to the login program that may cause this problem and it may be related to PAM. I do not use PAM on my system. A bug report was filed on the Gentoo bug tracker (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324419) but this is definitely an upstream issue and needs to be reported to the Debian list. Frank Peters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
