Comment 3 for bug 324302

> Have you had postgresql installed earlier on that system?

No.

> Do you keep a local userdatabase or do you use something like ldap
> alt. nis?

Nothing special.

> Any special pam settings?

Actually, yes. I use libpam-thinkfinger as well as ecryptfs-utils.
Both modify PAM settings (encryptfs-utils automatically via pam hooks,
libpam-thinkfinger has a shell script in /usr/lib/pam-thinkfinger that I
ran).

> This does kind of looks like the effects of Bug #238755. At least had it
> not been fixed already in Intrepid. I assume your system is fully
> upgraded?

Yes, including intrepid-updates and -backports.

> Anyhow, dealing in that general direction; have you been doing anything
> creative with the status of your root account?

No. I've never set a root password, and (as far as I can remember) I've
never used passwd -l root on this machine.

I can confirm that

  sudo chfn mg

gives me

  Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
  chfn: PAM authentication failed

The /etc/shadow line for root is

  root:!:14111:0:99999:7::1:

so this is a duplicate of #238755.

Marius Gedminas
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