Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:20:58 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT Message-ID: <200709011320.58769.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <46D928E2.1050907@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <46D928E2.1050907@lazlarlyricon.com>
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On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:54:58 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: > I just installed 7.0-CURRENT (after someone said on this list that it's > very stable and there are very few bugs left). So far it seems to work > fine, but there's one thing that bothers me. I repeatedly get the > following messages in the console: > > in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_authenticate() > in openpam_dispatch(): pam_nologin.so: no pam_sm_setcred() > > One of those, or sometimes both, appear every time someone logs in, and > since I use fetchmail to get mail from several accounts and deliver them > locally, and then a local POP3 server from which my mail clients gets > the mail, the logins, and thus the warning/error messages, are quite > frequent. > > Now for my actual questions: > > 1. How severe are those messages? Should I assume that there are > security holes? Don't think so. I think you didn't recompile PAM-aware software (like fetchmail and qpopper) so PAM warns you they didn't call the proper functions. > 2. How do I get rid of the messages? No matter how severe they are, I do > NOT want them filling up the console. So how could I correct the problem? Silence it by altering auth.notice to auth.none on the /dev/console line in /etc/syslog.conf and then restart syslogd (/etc/rc.d/syslogd restart). > 2a. Why do those messages appear at all? Could I have done something > wrong when building and installing world and/or kernel? I think it's mostly the port software. Sshd for instance shouldn't generate this problem. -- Mel
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