Package: passwd Version: 1:4.8.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Checks made for translation of man 8 groupmems * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Try to invoke groupmems as user and as systemadministrator * What was the outcome of this action? groupmems asked in both cases for authentification by a password, but does not specify which password is expected. There are three possibilies a) root password from root (however, this does not make much sense) b) user password for group-owning user (however, this does not make much sense) c) the group's password In all cases, I got a PAM authentification failure * What outcome did you expect instead? A snippet from the logfile is attached Best regards Markus -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.1 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU thread) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii libaudit1 1:3.0-2 ii libc6 2.32-4 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.18-4 ii libpam-modules 1.4.0-9+deb11u1 ii libpam0g 1.4.0-9+deb11u1 ii libselinux1 3.1-3 ii libsemanage1 3.1-1+b2 passwd recommends no packages. passwd suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/useradd [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: '/etc/default/useradd' -- no debconf information
Jan 28 08:42:56 lune sshd[423]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. Jan 28 08:42:57 lune sshd[423]: Server listening on :: port 22. Jan 28 08:43:10 lune systemd-logind[376]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event4 (Power Button) Jan 28 08:43:10 lune systemd-logind[376]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event2 (Power Button) Jan 28 08:43:10 lune systemd-logind[376]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event3 (Sleep Button) Jan 28 08:43:11 lune systemd-logind[376]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event0 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard) Jan 28 08:43:11 lune systemd-logind[376]: New seat seat0. Jan 28 08:44:34 lune xdm[480]: pam_unix(xdm:session): session opened for user hiereth(uid=501) by (uid=0) Jan 28 08:44:34 lune systemd-logind[376]: New session 1 of user hiereth. Jan 28 08:44:35 lune systemd: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user hiereth(uid=501) by (uid=0) Jan 28 09:09:01 lune CRON[1274]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Jan 28 09:09:02 lune CRON[1274]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Jan 28 09:17:02 lune CRON[1346]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Jan 28 09:17:02 lune CRON[1346]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Jan 28 09:34:56 lune login[1406]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user tester2(uid=1001) by LOGIN(uid=0) Jan 28 09:34:56 lune systemd-logind[376]: New session 5 of user tester2. Jan 28 09:34:57 lune systemd: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user tester2(uid=1001) by (uid=0) Jan 28 09:35:08 lune login[1406]: pam_unix(login:session): session closed for user tester2 Jan 28 09:35:08 lune systemd-logind[376]: Session 5 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit. Jan 28 09:35:08 lune systemd-logind[376]: Removed session 5. Jan 28 09:35:18 lune systemd: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session closed for user tester2 Jan 28 09:35:24 lune login[384]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by LOGIN(uid=0) Jan 28 09:35:24 lune systemd-logind[376]: New session 7 of user root. Jan 28 09:35:24 lune systemd: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Jan 28 09:35:25 lune login[1475]: ROOT LOGIN on '/dev/tty1' Jan 28 09:36:58 lune usermod[1489]: change user 'tester2' shell from '' to '/bin/bash' Jan 28 09:38:48 lune agetty[1447]: tty2: invalid character 0x1b in login name Jan 28 09:39:01 lune CRON[1515]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Jan 28 09:39:01 lune CRON[1515]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Jan 28 09:39:09 lune login[1513]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user tester2(uid=1001) by LOGIN(uid=0) Jan 28 09:39:09 lune systemd-logind[376]: New session 10 of user tester2. Jan 28 09:39:09 lune systemd: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user tester2(uid=1001) by (uid=0) Jan 28 09:45:40 lune groupmems[1647]: pam_unix(groupmems:auth): authentication failure; logname=root uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=root Jan 28 09:45:41 lune groupmems[1647]: Authentication failure Jan 28 09:46:04 lune groupmems[1651]: pam_unix(groupmems:auth): authentication failure; logname=root uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=root Jan 28 09:46:05 lune groupmems[1651]: Authentication failure Jan 28 09:51:03 lune gpasswd[1666]: password of group tester2 changed by root Jan 28 09:52:45 lune unix_chkpwd[1683]: password check failed for user (tester2) Jan 28 09:52:45 lune groupmems[1680]: pam_unix(groupmems:auth): authentication failure; logname=tester2 uid=1001 euid=1001 tty= ruser= rhost= user=tester2 Jan 28 09:52:47 lune groupmems[1680]: Authentication failure Jan 28 09:53:47 lune unix_chkpwd[1688]: password check failed for user (tester2) Jan 28 09:53:47 lune groupmems[1686]: pam_unix(groupmems:auth): authentication failure; logname=tester2 uid=1001 euid=1001 tty= ruser= rhost= user=tester2 Jan 28 09:53:49 lune groupmems[1686]: Authentication failure Jan 28 10:09:01 lune CRON[1888]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Jan 28 10:09:01 lune CRON[1888]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Jan 28 10:17:01 lune CRON[1959]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Jan 28 10:17:01 lune CRON[1959]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Jan 28 10:39:01 lune CRON[2053]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Jan 28 10:39:01 lune CRON[2053]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root