pam_group.so not working

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Andrew,

Bug report filed. First official Sourceforge bug I've filed, so I assume 
you'll tidy it up if necessary.  Thanks for the quick reply.

Todd

Andrew Morgan wrote:

> This looks like a bug.
> 
> Try ending the file with a '# comment\n'. (I've just been browsing the
> source and this may work around the problem...)
> 
> Could you file a bug report here:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=6663&atid=106663
> 
> Could you either attach your problematic conf file (and your pam.d/login
> file) there, or mail them to me directly..?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Todd Pytel wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>  Having some problems getting pam_group.so to assign extra groups for
>>console logins. Here's my /etc/security/group.conf:
>>
>>login ; vc/* ; tppytel ; Al0000-2400 ; floppy
>>
>>I've tried just a * instead of vc/*, since I wasn't sure if devfs was
>>confusing things. Also tried a * in the user and service fields. In my
>>/etc/pam.d/login file, the pam_group line is
>>
>>auth
>>        optional                pam_group.so
>>
>>Sorry I don't have the rest of the login file - I'm in Windows at the
>>moment - but it's pretty basic stuff. Just the usual pam_unix checks
>>along with lastlog and a securetty check.
>>
>>Now, no matter how I configure things, no extra group privileges are
>>granted and all I get is a line in syslog:
>>
>>[time] pam_group.so [pid]: not opened
>>
>>I changed the control in login from optional to requisite, hoping to get
>>more information, but nothing changed AND the login was still
>>successful. Anybody know what's going on here?
>>
>>This is using Linux-PAM-0.76 compiled and fitted into a Slackware 8.1
>>system with a rebuilt Shadow-4.0.3. Other PAM features (cracklib
>>checking, motd) and services work just fine, so I don't think I screwed
>>up the installation. I'd rather not use pam_console, since I'd have to
>>dig it out of an rpm, and the most recent version appears to be for .75,
>>which means I'd have to recompile everything again.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Todd
>>
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>>
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>>
> 
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