Bug#745082: PAM fails in a fakechroot environment : insufficient permissions for audit

I reworked JH Chatenet's suggestion and submitted it upstream: . I'll try to reach the maintainer through various channels, as the last fakechroot repository log entry was in Jan 2014. best wishes, Sven Ulland

Bug#745082: PAM fails in a fakechroot environment : insufficient permissions for audit

Hi, chfn doesn't only give an error in a fakechroot environment, but passwd - and possibly every PAM invocation - too. The culprit seems to be libaudit1 linked to libpam. I was mistaken blaming a setuid executable. The symptoms : chfn outputs an error line chfn: PAM: System error and there is