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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:56:26 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Wiktor Niesiobedzki <bsd@w.evip.pl>
Cc:        Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
Subject:   Re: Replacing passwd?
Message-ID:  <20041121195626.GA8805@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041121174033.GA3019@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <419CD314.80900@fer.hr> <20041118171012.GB19265@dan.emsphone.com> <20041120222325.GC17297@lb.tenfour> <20041121020745.GC94473@dan.emsphone.com> <20041121144905.GE3584@mail.evip.pl> <20041121174033.GA3019@dan.emsphone.com>

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In the last episode (Nov 21), Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Nov 21), Wiktor Niesiobedzki said:
> > I was playing with it today and removing errx function allows passwd
> > to change the password, but the other problem I step on is: How to
> > properly configure /etc/pam.d/passwd
> > 
> > The configuration, which I have now is simply:
> > password        sufficient      /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so
> > password        sufficient      pam_unix.so             no_warn try_first_pass nullok
> 
> You probably don't need pam_unix in there at all, since there's no way
> it'll work (no local passwd entry).

I take that back; you do want it, so you can change root's password.
But you need to make it "required", not sufficient.  It's a quirk of
how pam works, I think, but the last entry cannot be marked
"sufficient".

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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