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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2003 06:08:29 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Barry Hawkins <ly5t5@allthingscomputed.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@lists.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: possible issue with pam
Message-ID:  <20031203140828.GA61355@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <A330DAE8-2547-11D8-A6B1-000A95A0485E@allthingscomputed.com>
References:  <A330DAE8-2547-11D8-A6B1-000A95A0485E@allthingscomputed.com>

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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:17:41PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> List,
> 	Hello.  I have recently begun to encounter an issue with changing 
> passwords on my 5.1 installation.  I haven't touched anything on it for 
> a few months, and the last change-related activity I had were some 
> portupgrade tasks to rid myself of the libintl.so.4 issue solved with 
> "portupgrade -R gettext" back around September 2003.  I am wondering if 
> anyone has experienced an issue similar to mine.
> 	When I attempt to use passwd to change my password, I get the 
> following upon successfully re-typing the password:
> 
> passwd: entry inconsistent
> passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
> 
> 	If anyone has insight on this I would be grateful.  A search of the 
> list for pam_chauthtok only revealed one person asking a similar 
> question related to yppasswd.

Compare your /etc/pam.d configuration against the sources in
/usr/src/etc/pam.d to make sure you have not damaged your pam
configuration by mis-merging changes.  Also make sure you have no
/etc/pam.conf file, which was removed a long time ago.

Kris

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