--- Warly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sandy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm a new Mandrake user, 7.1 with cooker to
> follow, and have a question about
> > the login program. I see what I think is a
> moderately ghastly bug in 7.1 and
> > wonder if it is fixed in development release, or
> can be for next release.
> >
> > On an unsuccessful login, I see PAM output. This
> is wrong. You may want to log
> > that output and/or show it to the real user at the
> next successful login, but
> > you shouldn't display it on failure.
> >
> > I'm not authenticated so you shouldn't trust me
> /at all/ and shouldn't tell me
> > /anything/ beyond "login failed".
> >
> > The first discussion of this I saw was in:
> >
> > R. Morris and K. Thompson, UNIX Password
> Security, CACM, Vol. 22, 11,
> > TM 78-1271-5, pp. 594--597, 1979.
> >
> > and I've had quite a bit of fun since gloating
> when various non-Unix systems
> > get it wrong. It really upsets me to see a Linux
> system muff this.
>
> isn't that a problem of syslogd not launched or
> badly configured ?
Try login by telnet (on other console, machine or X,
of course) or on console #2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and if it
doesn't show then there is something wrong (or ok)
with syslogd. The cause could be that you modified
your /etc/syslogd.conf to log everything or something
to /dev/console.
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