Re: How can I remove PAM from my system?
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Yes. The problem doesn't seem to be the pam.d config files themselves
> anyway. I can't get any PAM authentication to work.
> When I try to telnet into node01
> Nov 27 20:54:33 node01 PAM_unix[13935]: check pass; user unknown
> Nov 27 20:54:33 node01 PAM_unix[13935]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> exa for login service
> Nov 27 20:54:35 node01 login[13935]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on `pts/2' from `borg' FOR `exa', Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
> Now, where does the brilliant authentication service retrieve
> authentication information from? glibc?
pam_unix uses the standard libc calls to retrieve information about users.
> node01:/usr/share/doc/rsh-server# getent passwd exa
> exa:x:1000:1000:Eray 'exa' Ozkural,,,:/home/exa:/bin/bash
> node01:/usr/share/doc/rsh-server# getent shadow exa
> Unknown database: shadow
> Try `getent --help' or `getent --usage' for more information.
> Might this be the problem? :((
According to getent(1), this program doesn't support the shadow map; so a
failure here doesn't really indicate a problem.
Does rlogin work for accounts if you add them to a local database on the node?
Knowing that can help determine if this is a general PAM problem, or if it's
specific to NIS.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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