Re: pam_smbpass.so

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>]

Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> writes:

> Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look
>> like this:
>
>> Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so):
>> /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No
>> such file or directory
>> Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM adding faulty module: pam_smbpass.so
>
>> So...  any idea what's going on here, and more importantly how to fix
>> it?  I also see consistently that this is a harmless message, but it
>> bugs me...
>
> Do a 
>
>   rgrep smbpass /etc/pam.d
>
> and see, if you have an old config file there which references
> pam_smbpass.so via absolute path. This can cause this error.

snowball:606$ rgrep smbpass /etc/pam.d
/etc/pam.d/common-password:password	optional			pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok use_first_pass
/etc/pam.d/common-auth:auth	optional			pam_smbpass.so migrate

> Odds are, you can just remove the old config file and purge the package
> you installed, because you don't need it.