Re: Users unabled to login

["T. Srinivasa Rao" <trao cstp umkc edu>]

I tried from the 'user and group configuration' option of console in X
windows.. In fact, I deleted and added again..

Bye
T.Srinivasa Rao

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Steven Romero wrote:

> I might be able to answer your question, but it depends.  This might not be a
> PAM problem.  How are you setting up the users on your Linux box?
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
> T. Srinivasa Rao wrote:
> 
> >  Hello.. In my linux (kernel 2.0.36) machine. general users
> >  are not able to login. The syslog entries are looking like this..
> >  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Feb 26 16:18:49 sagar PAM_pwdb[658]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM sagar FOR trao,
> >  Authentication failure
> >  Feb 26 16:18:50 sagar pam[658]: pam_get_user: no username obtained
> >  Feb 26 16:18:50 sagar PAM-securetty[658]: can not determine username for
> >  this service!
> >  Feb 26 16:18:50 sagar PAM-securetty[658]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM sagar
> >  FOR (null), Error in service module
> >  Feb 26 16:18:50 sagar PAM_pwdb[658]: 1 authentication failure; (uid=0) ->
> >  trao for login service
> >  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >  In fact, when I installed  redhat linux 5.0 (kernel 2.0.33), there was no
> >  problem. But after XFreed86 package (I am not sure how it is related to
> >  PAM), this problem arised? I tried later with upgrading PAM also.. Still
> >  the problem persists.. Can somebody give a clue hwo to about sorting this?
> >  The entries in /etc/pam.d/login look like these...
> >
> >  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  auth       required    /lib/security/pam_securetty.so debug
> >  auth       required    /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok debug
> >  auth       required    /lib/security/pam_nologin.so debug
> >  account    required    /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so debug
> >  password   required    /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so debug
> >  password   required    /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok use_authtok
> >  debug
> >  session    required    /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so debug
> >  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >  Please send replies to trao@cstp.umkc.edu
> >
> >  Thanks in advance..
> >  Bye
> >  T.Srinivasa Rao
> >
> >
> >
> >
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