On Mon, Apr 30, Chris Siakos wrote: > So for usernames over 13 characters: > spop against shadow passwords WORKS > spop against shadow passwords (via PAM) DOES NOT WORK > proftp against shadow WORKS > proftp against shadow (via PAM) DOES NOT WORK > > I am pretty confident that PAM is the problem. Is there anyway to increase > logging for PAM? When PAM fails it fails abruptly, saying connection > closed, it doesn't return any helpful messages. I don't know your configuration for spop and proftp, but which modules does they use ? It is not a generall PAM problem, I have no problems with login, su, passwd and a lot of more. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B