Subject: PAM failing authentication
From: Murias O'Ceallagh (murias@dragonsblood.net)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 23:37:15 MST
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Hello,
I appear to be having a problem with PAM. I am unable to login, ftp, use
appletalk services, etc. Client machine states password is incorrect.
I checked the logs and found:
Feb 8 22:16:08 phreaki PAM_pwdb[1566]: authentication failure; (uid=0) ->
murias for login service
Feb 8 22:16:09 phreaki login[1556]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM <my location> FOR
murias, Authentication failure
Feb 8 22:16:16 phreaki login[1556]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM <my location> FOR
murias, Authentication failure
Feb 8 22:16:19 phreaki PAM_pwdb[1566]: check pass; user unknown
Feb 8 22:16:20 phreaki login[1556]: FAILED LOGIN 3 FROM <my location> FOR
exit, User not known to the underlying authentication module
Feb 8 22:16:21 phreaki login[1556]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM <my
location> FOR , User not known to the underlying authentication module
Feb 8 22:16:21 phreaki PAM_pwdb[1566]: 1 more authentication failure;
(uid=0) -> murias for login service
Feb 8 22:16:21 phreaki inetd[435]: pid 1565: exit status 1
the <my location> is a machine on the same network that I am trying to
telnet, ftp, or connect via appletalk from.
so then I go and take a look at my /etc/pam.d/login :
#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
auth required /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_cracklib.so
password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok use_authtok
session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
Which looks good, this is what was on my other machine by default and
worked nicely. And is also the default for this machine too.
is there something that I am blatantly missing?
I also did check /etc/passwd just to make sure I didn;t do something
stupid like not give the user a login shell.
login for anyone other than root also does not work, even form the
console.
thank you to anyone that assists, in advance.
Murias
The Truth Against The World.
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