[TriLUG] pam help

[mark at thefowles.com]

:-)  Glad its working for you now -- Sounds like the ldap guy didn't setup ldap right....


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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:31:45 -0400, Ryan Leathers <Ryan.Leathers at globalknowledge.com> wrote:

> woot woot woot!
> 
> thats all there was to it - checked off ldap in authconfig
> saved me from the more drastic steps I was contemplating
> 
> thanks Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark at thefowles.com [mailto:mark at thefowles.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:01 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] pam help
> 
> 
> If you can get into the sytem, check authconfig and see if LDAP is
> enabled....   (this updates /etc/pam.d/system-auth to include pam_ldap.so
> for log in)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
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> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:58:52 -0400 (EDT), "Matt Pusateri"
> <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I have a Redhat 9 system which is not allowing interactive console or
> > > remote
> > > login.
> > > It used to.
> > >
> > > I bounced it into single user and checked nsswitch, passwd, shadow...
> > > nothing fishy there.
> > >
> > > I'm hearing a third hand story that someone may have been applying RPMs
> > > and
> > > futzing with this host in order to allow ldap authentication, but a find
> > > -newer didn't turn anything up that seemed important to me, and the
> person
> > > who allegedly did the deed went on vacation.
> > >
> > > My guess is that I need to look at pam.  This is probably because I
> don't
> > > know much about pam and the unknown makes for a handy scapegoat.  So, my
> > > question for the pam-aware before I go off half cocked... are my
> symptoms
> > > described above things which may result from pam trouble?
> > 
> > It very well sounds like it could be PAM. I know I have done the same
> > thing trying to get LDAP authentication working.  Although I guess if I
> > was a PAM expert I wouldn't have locked myself out:)
> > 
> > Matt
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