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When I log in or use su I get configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify administrator)
Before this started to occur I did apt-get upgrade.
Google finds a couple of cases of this same problem but I couldn't find any solution. Does anybody know why this is happening and how it could be fixed?
I'm running unstable with 2.6.15 kernel.
I don't recomend doing apt-get upgrade, it will change the dynamics of every package on your system(or almost all) What is your distro: debian, mepis, ubuntu, ?
After some heavy digging I found a solution from Debian bug report logs.
Thanks for the answer anyways.
P.S.
Here's the solution if someone should need it:
The problem is caused by upgrading package login.
apt-get for some reason doesn't remove FAIL_DELAY etc. from /etc/login.defs eventhough they are not needed anymore (and may not exist in that file). If you manually comment out those lines, everything should work.
after upgrade or distro upgrade better look at /etc/login.defs.dpkg-dist http://linuxquestions.cachefly.net/i...ilies/read.gif
some of the above settings are moved to /etc/pam.d/
ENV_HZ
PASS_MAX_LEN
CHFN_AUTH
and these are obsoleted
CLOSE_SESSIONS
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