On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:03:42PM +0200, nissim wrote: > I am running a redhat 7.2 machine with the regular pam rpms that came > with the d > istribution . > The rpms are : > ---------------- > 1) pam_krb5-1.46-1 > 2) pam_smb-1.1.6-2 > 3) pam-0.75-14 > 4) pam-devel-0.75-14 There's an errata for the pam and pam-devel packages for RHL 7.2 (http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-149.html). You may want to try updating to it. One of the problems it specifically fixes is unexpected failures when authenticating users, though there are various other fixes in there as well. Cheers, Nalin