RE: First Attempt at root login on console always FAILS ??

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On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 18:09 -0400, Hasan Rezaul-CHR010 wrote:
> Hi Stephen & Dan,
> 
> From the /var/log/ files, I am not sure what pam module is having
> problems ?!?  All I get, is a "System error" in the /var/log/secure
> file !
> 
> So I reset the card, when I try to login the first time on the console
> as root, I get "Login incorrect", and the second time, the login is
> successful. This is 100% reproducible.  Selinux is running in
> "Permissive" mode.

This means that one of your pam auth modules failed with a system error.

I'd suggest commenting out some of those pam modules, as I suggested
earlier.  In particular, pam_tally is often a source of problems (and an
easy denial of service).

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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