Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:07:10 +0800 From: KC Somaratne <kc.somaratne@gmail.com> To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: possible issue with pam Message-ID: <9967ef07050107070731cee6b2@mail.gmail.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 Hi Kris, I've had a similar issue with a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE box for an account belonging to the 'wheel' group. I last changed the password for this account successfully roughly two months ago and since then I haven't changed anything at all. Now when I try to change the password for this account using root it prompts me with the below error message. root:/etc#passwd <user_name> Changing local password for <user_name> New Password: Retype New Password: passwd: entry inconsistent passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module I get the same error message when trying to change the password using the same account as well. I have carefully verified that I did indeed enter the same string for the password verification. I have done the checks you have recommended in the above mail. The only differences are the /etc/pam.d has an additional file 'ftp'. The /usr/src/etc/pam.d contain two additional files Makefile & convert.pl. Appreciate any suggestions on what might be causing this behaviour and how I might be able to resolve the problem. Also, is this at all any sign of my system being compromised? Thanks in advance, -kc,
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