I've found out, that the problem is, that the debian/ubuntu package of libpam-unix2 does not feature a way to check the password, if the pam process is not allowed to read /etc/shadow.
Novell seems to have a patch for this in their rpm package (ftp://suse.inode.at/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/src-oss/suse/src /pam-modules-10.2-31.src.rpm). This patch contains a program, that seems to be equivalent to unix_checkpwd (called unit2_checkpwd) for this module. Btw: Looks like I've overlooked https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpam-unix2/+bug/82518, which seems to describe the same problem. -- authentication failures https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106670 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
