Hi all, I have been having an ongoing minor problem with an application (AUC) that uses PAM for authentication. AUC has it's own userbase/password, but needs the users to exist in /etc/password as well (for email). Every time a user logs in it generates an error in the logs similar to: Jan 7 13:01:33 vortex PAM_pwdb[30287]: get passwd; pwdb: request not recognized
the associated pam.d file is: #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_smb_auth.so debug auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so not_set_pass nullok session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so To fix this issue I have removed debug from line 1 and commented out line 2, now this seems to work. Can anyone see any 'unintended consequences' of this? I have been reading on-line about PAM but am still quite hazy, it seems to me though that line 2 is asking for a password and expecting it to be in the shadow file, which it isn't and because it is only set at sufficient things continue. _________________________________________ Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramata ICQ#: 137562751 _________________________________________ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
