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I hate PAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ridgway)
Tue Oct 22 02:04:41 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:02:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Ridgway <ridgway@routh.UCSD.EDU>
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Everything seems to be broken all the time, and various flailing barely
helps.
rcp didn't work, changing passwords didn't work, so I started messing
with PAM again, doing rpm -ivh --force on the new pam and the pamconfig
from 4.0. I currently have
[ridgway@hamster ~]$ rpm -q pam pamconfig
pam-0.50-19
pamconfig-0.50-5
and rpm -V pam pamconfig returning nothing, ie I have the /etc/pam.conf
from pamconfig.
Actually, that's not quite true. rpm -V pam from a window running a root
shell returns nothing. rpm -V pam from a window running a user shell returns
[ridgway@hamster ~]$ rpm -V pam pamconfig
..5..... /sbin/pam_filter/upperLOWER
so rpm doesn't seem to agree with itself as to the correctness of pam,
depending on whether root or a user is checking. rpm -V rpm checks out
okay, I've got rpm-2.2.7-1.
Currently su doesn't work (returns su: incorrect password without
prompting), rlogin to another machine takes forever. Rolling a pam.conf I
got (I think) with Rembrandt II, I can at least su, although trying to
change my password results in
[ridgway@hamster ~]$ passwd
Password:
New password:
Unable to access password validation file
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
This pam.conf (for the bug whackers of the world) is available at
http://inls.ucsd.edu/~ridgway/pam.conf
I just want a minimal security usable system, without too many things
broken. I can provide more information if it's useful.
Thanks for any help.
doug.
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