On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:05:51 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: > Mel wrote: > > On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: > >> I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's > >> very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work > >> fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the > >> following messages in the console: > >> > >> in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_authenticate() > >> in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_setcred() > >> > >> One of those, or sometimes both, appear every time someone logs in, and > >> since I use fetchmail to get mail from several accounts and deliver them > >> locally, and then a local POP3 server from which my mail clients gets > >> the mail, the logins, and thus the warning/error messages, are quite > >> frequent. > >> > >> Now for my actual questions: > >> > >> 1. How severe are those messages? Should I assume that there are > >> security holes? > > > > Don't think so. I think you didn't recompile PAM-aware software (like > > fetchmail and qpopper) so PAM warns you they didn't call the proper > > functions. > > > >> 2. How do I get rid of the messages? No matter how severe they are, I do > >> NOT want them filling up the console. So how could I correct the > >> problem? > > > > Silence it by altering auth.notice to auth.none on the /dev/console line > > in /etc/syslog.conf and then restart syslogd (/etc/rc.d/syslogd restart). > > > >> 2a. Why do those messages appear at all? Could I have done something > >> wrong when building and installing world and/or kernel? > > > > I think it's mostly the port software. Sshd for instance shouldn't > > generate this problem. > > It does it for EVERY login. Also with xdm and login. And I did forcibly > recompiled ALL ports.
How did you upgrade? Cross-partition or in-place? A current installation of a few days old says: find /etc/pam.d -type f \! -name README |xargs grep FreeBSD: | sed -e 's%^.*\(src/.*\)Exp.*$%\1%' src/etc/pam.d/atrun,v 1.1 2007/06/15 12:02:16 yar src/etc/pam.d/cron,v 1.1 2007/06/17 17:25:52 yar src/etc/pam.d/ftpd,v 1.19 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/gdm,v 1.8 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/imap,v 1.7 2007/06/15 11:33:13 yar src/etc/pam.d/kde,v 1.7 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/login,v 1.17 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/other,v 1.11 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/passwd,v 1.3 2003/04/24 12:22:42 des src/etc/pam.d/pop3,v 1.7 2007/06/15 11:33:13 yar src/etc/pam.d/rsh,v 1.6 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/sshd,v 1.16 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/su,v 1.16 2003/07/09 18:40:49 des src/etc/pam.d/system,v 1.1 2003/06/14 12:35:05 des src/etc/pam.d/telnetd,v 1.8 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/xdm,v 1.11 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar src/etc/pam.d/ftpd,v 1.19 2007/06/10 18:57:20 yar If yours are different, you may need to re-run mergemaster. Otherwise, I'd take it to -current list, cause I don't see what you're seeing. -- Mel People using reply to all on lists, must think I need 2 copies. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"