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-rw-r--r--login-utils/su-common.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/su-common.c b/login-utils/su-common.c
index caabe23a6..4d91b22e4 100644
--- a/login-utils/su-common.c
+++ b/login-utils/su-common.c
@@ -1446,7 +1446,9 @@ int su_main(int argc, char **argv, int mode)
|| !su->pwd->pw_passwd
|| !su->pwd->pw_name || !*su->pwd->pw_name
|| !su->pwd->pw_dir || !*su->pwd->pw_dir)
- errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("user %s does not exist"), su->new_user);
+ errx(EXIT_FAILURE,
+ _("user %s does not exist or the user entry does not "
+ "contain all the required fields"), su->new_user);
su->new_user = su->pwd->pw_name;
su->old_user = xgetlogin();