On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Alan Womack wrote: > here is the command, the error and the log: > > root@webby:root# useradd mh > useradd: PAM authentication failed > root@webby:root# tail /var/log/auth.log > Aug 30 19:44:30 webby su[18831]: + tty2 Alan-root > Aug 30 19:44:44 webby su[18833]: + ttyp0 Alan-root > Aug 30 19:44:55 webby PAM-warn[18835]: function=[pam_sm_authenticate] service=[shadow] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[root] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>] > Aug 30 19:48:39 webby PAM-warn[18845]: function=[pam_sm_authenticate] service=[shadow] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[root] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>] > Aug 30 19:49:48 webby PAM-warn[18850]: function=[pam_sm_authenticate] service=[shadow] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[root] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>] > Aug 30 19:52:00 webby sshd(pam_unix)[18817]: session closed for user Alan > Aug 30 19:56:24 webby sshd[18857]: Accepted password for Alan from 192.168.0.1 port 1111 > Aug 30 19:56:24 webby sshd(pam_unix)[18859]: session opened for user Alan by (uid=1001) > Aug 30 19:56:27 webby su[18861]: + ttyp0 Alan-root > Aug 30 19:56:30 webby PAM-warn[18862]: function=[pam_sm_authenticate] service=[shadow] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[root] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>] > > I suspect I have an issue where I don't have the proper pam.d file > entry, but I have tried su, sudo, and passwd copies of my login stack. You are right, here is proper one: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so account required /lib/security/pam_permit.so #password required /lib/security/pam_make.so /var/db Jan -- Jan Rêkorajski | ALL SUSPECTS ARE GUILTY. PERIOD! baggins<at>mimuw.edu.pl | OTHERWISE THEY WOULDN'T BE SUSPECTS, WOULD THEY? BOFH, MANIAC | -- TROOPS by Kevin Rubio
