http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556518#c0 Summary: coreutils: su broken with locked users Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jnelson-suse@jamponi.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 SUSE/3.5.4-1.1.2 Firefox/3.5.4 Originally part of bug 533249. Users with locked accounts (those with '!' ??) cannot be su'd to. As root, some users can be su'd to: (regular users), ftp, etc... Not postgres. Eventually I tracked the difference down to postgres being considered 'locked' - and that the passwd/shadow entry for those users is '!' instead of '*'. I determined this by turning up PAM debugging for pam_unix2 Why is the behavior different in 11.2 versus 11.1? This prevented the postgresql upgrade from working properly. I had to perform the following steps, once I had an idea that it was a locked account problem: 1. pwunconv 2. vipw and change the password for 'postgres' to '*' instead of '!' - the latter indicates that the account is locked. 3. *now* I can start postgres and such. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.