Can you edit the commit message so that that's in the permanent log?

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"Jason R. Fink" <jrf@adresearch.com> writes:

> > So are you going to mention it now? :-)
> 
> Under certain conditions, an su -m will fail. Specifically
> when the user is root and the passwd db is in 
> Hesiod or NIS, and root's shell is /bin/sh.
> 
> getpwnam() calls getusershell() and looks at /etc/shells. 
> The pointer remains at the second entry of /etc/shells if
> /bin/sh is first and root is using it (I would assume the
> same would happen for any).
> 
> Fix, call setusershell() to rewind right before 
> looping with getusershell().
> 

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com