Martin Waller wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to write a small program that uses PAM to authenticate a user > given a username and password. The program I have uses pam_start and > pam_authenticate. What I'm finding on Linux is that pam_authenticate calls > the conversation routine once for the password and always returns PAM error > code 3. The same program works fine on a Sun machine and fine on an HP-UX > machine and I can't see where I'm going wrong. It's almost as if PAM is not > linked upto the /etc/passwd file which is the authentication mechanism we > use. Can you tell if the module gets the password? What does /var/log/messages say? > Should we expect PAM to work straight out of the box or is there something > more that needs to be done ? > Were any versions of PAM buggy ? What version are you using? Cheers Andrew
