Joachim, On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, StyX wrote: > Thanks for the tips everybody, but I haven't had too much luck yet. I'm > no C guru, so I have no reasonable explanation of why it doesn't read > /etc/secure/shadow... If someone could look into this, and tell me what > I have to change, I would _REALLY_ appreciate it. I see from below that you're using pam_unix. You'll have a very hard time getting pam_unix to use a different shadow file, because the code that specifies the location of the shadow file isn't in pam_unix -- it's in libc. There is a PAM module (not included with Linux-PAM) that can look in other files for passwords: http://cpbotha.net/pam_pwdfile.html > But what about the pam_limits problem? Does anyone know what the cause > of that may be? I recompiled pam with debugging enabled, but it didn't > make me any smarter. These are the messages I get when logging in: This looks similar to a bug that showed up in Debian recently -- pam_limits was compiled with capabilities support, and a bug prevented the calling application from being able to set group memberships for the login. The bug has been fixed in the Debian package, but I don't know if there's anything that needs to be changed in the main Linux-PAM source. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
