On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:42:54PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Hi, > > I used apt yesterday to upgrade some packages including some libpam > packages and now an incoming ppp connection fails with entries like this > in the log: > > Oct 1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: check pass; user unknown > Oct 1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: authentication failure; LOGIN(uid=0) > -> CONNECT 57600 for login service > Oct 1 21:17:10 elm login[25488]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM FOR CONNECT 57600, > Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. > > Connections worked yesterday morning. I use mgetty with this line: > > /AutoPPP/ - au_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd debug
Where are your ppp users coming from (NIS, /etc/passwd)? It seems that it cannot find the user that is logging in. Ben