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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 03:48:45 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        FreeBSD mailing list <bsd@righi.df.unibo.it>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: big PAM problem
Message-ID:  <20010321034845.A1025@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103210926570.7004-100000@righi.df.unibo.it>; from bsd@righi.df.unibo.it on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:27:54AM %2B0100
References:  <20010319140406.C9671@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103210926570.7004-100000@righi.df.unibo.it>

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:27:54AM +0100, FreeBSD mailing list wrote:
>=20
> the problem is that I have NEVER edited pam.conf, since the first
> installation reboot it gives me this error.
> OR some port package changes the pam.conf itself ?
> I never touched it.

Please reread what I wrote.  As soon as you put something in
/etc/pam.d it ignores the system defaults in /etc/pam.conf, and you
have to go all the way and put ALL of the pam.conf contents in
/etc/pam.d

Don't use /etc/pam.d, add your changes to /etc/pam.conf instead.

Kris

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:17:18PM +0100, FreeBSD mailing list wrote:
> > > I have no 'other' file in /etc/pam.d I have only a cups file there.
> >=20
> > As documented in the pam(8) manpage, if you use /etc/pam.d it expects
> > to find everything it needs there, and it ignores /etc/pam.conf.  This
> > is sub-optimal, but it's the way it works at present.  Add your
> > changes to /etc/pam.conf instead.
> >=20
> > Kris
> >=20
>=20
>=20
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