From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 1 13:45:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AAF16A419 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:45:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (66-230-99-27-cdsl-rb1.nwc.acsalaska.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A3013C458 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:45:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBABD1CC38 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 05:44:52 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:44:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46D928E2.1050907@lazlarlyricon.com> <200709011320.58769.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <46D95CBD.7050403@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <46D95CBD.7050403@lazlarlyricon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709011544.51498.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: PAM issues in -CURRENT (supplement) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:45:25 -0000 On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:36:13 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: > Mel wrote: > > 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. > > Here's exactly what I've done: > > 1. I downloaded the sources into a separate source tree (to keep the 6.2 > sources if I wanted to roll back), /usr/src7. Aha! [1] > k. mergemaster [1] Are you sure temproot was made using /usr/src7 and not /usr/src? I'm pretty sure this is the culprit. The only thing different that I did, was using a cross-partition install (so that machine can boot -stable and -current) and the major diff with that is, that you get a virgin /etc/. Another minor diff is that you're recommended to recompile after booting into -current, however, I still have the auth log from the first boot and did not find any messages similar to yours, which I should have if it's a problem in -current. If you suspect the mergemaster problem: mv /usr/src /usr/src6 ln -s /usr/src7 /usr/src mergemaster -- Mel People using reply to all on lists, must think I need 2 copies.