Package: libpam-modules Version: 1.1.0-4 Severity: important
after a recent upgrade of libpam-modules, i could not authenticate local users anymore. trying to login as root logs the following to /var/log/auth.log: <snip:/var/log/auth.log> Sep 28 09:57:37 hal9000 login[4084]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so): /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Sep 28 09:57:37 hal9000 login[4084]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so Sep 28 09:57:37 hal9000 login[4084]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so): /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Sep 28 09:57:37 hal9000 login[4084]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so Sep 28 09:58:08 hal9000 login[4311]: FAILED LOGIN (3) on '/dev/tty3' FOR 'root', User not known to the underlying authentication module </snip:/var/log/auth.log> note the "user 'root' not known to the underlying authentication module" at the end. luckily i'm using both pam_unix and pam_ldap to authenticate users and have set up sudo, so i could still become root (as a user stored in ldap). the problem (as indicated by the errors in auth.log) turned out to be that /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so and /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so were referenced in my pam.d/ setup but appear to have vanished from my harddisk. according to http://packages.debian.org, the file /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so is supposed to be in the sid package of libpam-modules, which it is not. changing my pam.d/ configuration to use pam_unix.so rather than the sub-modules pam_unix_auth.so and pam_unix_acct.so fixed the problem and i can log in again. i don't remember any warning about the disappearing modules during the upgrade, and/or that i'm supposed to touch my pam.d/ in order to keep my system running. mgasdr IOhannes -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libpam-modules depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.7 4.7.25-7 Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [ ii libpam0g 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.85-4 SELinux runtime shared libraries libpam-modules recommends no packages. libpam-modules suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
