On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 11:14:08 +0200 Felix Geyer <fge...@debian.org> wrote: [...] > It looks like you have some PAM configuration that disallows root to switch > users with "su".
Yes, the problem occurred on FreedomBox machines where logins for regular users is disabled. We have the following line in /etc/security/access.conf "-:ALL EXCEPT root fbx plinth (admin) (sudo):ALL" Removing that line allows for error free install (however, we need that setup). > > I'll change the postinst script to "runuser" which is more appropriate for > this anyway. > I can confirm that the "runuser" fix works. Would be nice if you could upload the fix that has been committed. Thanks for all the effort packaging quassel. -- Sunil
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