On 02/13/2013 11:29 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > I updated my "server" a while back, and just recently I noticed this in > /var/log/messages: > > Feb 13 11:26:14 coretwoduo login[25575]: pam_tally2(login:auth): > pam_get_uid; no such user > > I have thousands of entries in my logs. It doesn't seem to prevent me > from logging in though. > > I have figured out that it's looking for a user 'auth'? I don't see that > on my system. > > Is this a misconfiguration of pam? Or update gone wonky? I've never seen > this before.
For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be wrong somewhere. Just for fun I ran "emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this: #emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5.1-r1 [ebuild R ] net-mail/mailbase-1.1 [ebuild R ] app-admin/sudo-1.8.6_p6 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-0.110 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8 [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.6.1 [ebuild R ] net-misc/openssh-6.1_p1-r1 [ebuild R ] net-fs/samba-3.6.12 I mention this mostly because I learned very recently that emerge will accept a directory name and rebuild all of the packages that install files there. Maybe it won't help you but I'm looking for any excuse to use that new trick :) (Some wise gentooer posted that revelation here in the last month or so and I can't recall who it was, sorry.)
