Unfortunately, this does not really help me understand the failure. > > Can you tell if the module gets the password? What does > > /var/log/messages say? > > What version are you using? If there is a bug lurking somewhere in PAM, I'd really like to remove it. Cheers Andrew Martin Waller wrote: > > Hello, > > Many thanks for the follow up but I think I've fixed it, or at least have a > solution. The error return of 3 suggested that something bad was happening > inside the shared library. As a trial I tried giving PAM the terminal name > using pam_set_item(pamh,PAM_TTY,"/dev/tty0") and the problem went away and > the program worked as expected. I then tried setting the TTY to an empty > string pam_set_item(pamh,PAM_TTY,"") and my program still worked fine which > begs the question should PAM expect to have a TTY and is the shared library > walking off the end of a pointer if not supplied with one. I see no reason > to have to supply a TTY name but I may be wrong ? > > Martin > "Andrew Morgan" <morgan@transmeta.com> wrote in message > 3A5F87B2.5309BE76@transmeta.com">news:3A5F87B2.5309BE76@transmeta.com... > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Pam-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
