On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:16:15AM -0800, vincenzo romero wrote: > Hello all > > I would like to disable PAM authentication in my test server running Centos5.1. You can't. PAM is compiled into the authentication programs. Without PAM you'd never be able to login at all! It's PAM that actually checks your password etc etc etc. > "Feb 22 02:01:31 localhost login: pam_securetty(login:auth): access > denied: tty 'tty1' is not secure !" This normally means you're trying to login as "root" but the terminal you're using is not listed in /etc/securetty Two solutions: 1) Add tty1 to /etc/securetty OR 2) comment out the pam_securetty lines in /etc/pam.d/* files ( maybe only /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/remote ) I'd recommend solution "1" myself. -- rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos