#1147641 Missing configuration file /etc/pam.d/remote

Package:
login
Source:
login
Description:
system login tools
Submitter:
Brad Cowie
Date:
2026-09-23 22:01:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1147641#5
Date:
2026-09-14 02:33:59 UTC
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The login package for trixie is missing the pam configuration file
/etc/pam.d/remote:

$ dpkg -L login | grep pam.d
/etc/pam.d
/etc/pam.d/login

This causes issues for some software in rendering the dynamic motd:

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/16983

I see this bug (#1103923) was fixed for unstable in util-linux
2.41.1-2, however the fix never made it into trixie.

Would it be possible to backport this fix from unstable into trixie?

Thanks,
Brad

#1147641#12
Date:
2026-09-23 21:59:36 UTC
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To:
I see this bug was marked as resolved by util-linux/2.41.1-2,
but this version never made it into trixie, so I believe this is still
an open bug.

Looking at /usr/share/doc/util-linux/changelog.Debian.gz for package
util-linux in trixie,
we find only version 2.41-1 which does not mention the remote file:
--- util-linux (2.41-1) experimental; urgency=medium * New upstream release. * d/control: put myself directly into the Maintainer field * Refresh patches * Update list of installed localized manpages
--- util-linux (2.41.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Mark uuid_time64 symbol linux-only. Thanks to Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> (Closes: #1108994) * Install PAM configuration for login "remote" (Closes: #1103923) * Add patches from upstream