Re: ppp refusing connections due to pam

[Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:42:54PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I used apt yesterday to upgrade some packages including some libpam
> > packages and now an incoming ppp connection fails with entries like this
> > in the log: 
> > 
> > Oct  1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: check pass; user unknown
> > Oct  1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: authentication failure; LOGIN(uid=0)
> > -> CONNECT 57600 for login service
> > Oct  1 21:17:10 elm login[25488]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM  FOR CONNECT 57600,
> > Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
> > 
> > Connections worked yesterday morning.  I use mgetty with this line:
> > 
> > /AutoPPP/ -     au_ppp  /usr/sbin/pppd debug
> 
> Where are your ppp users coming from (NIS, /etc/passwd)? It seems that it
> cannot find the user that is logging in.
> 
> Ben

Hello Ben,

You are quite correct - as usual.  It turns out that my caller simply got
her name or password wrong.  Ahem!  It would happen on the first call when
I saw "UNIX_pam" in the logs.  Sorry to bother you over this.  

While I'm here I take the opportunity of thanking you for your efforts in
the Debian project. 

Lindsay
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