Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> writes: > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > >> I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look >> like this: > >> Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so): >> /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No >> such file or directory >> Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM adding faulty module: pam_smbpass.so > >> So... any idea what's going on here, and more importantly how to fix >> it? I also see consistently that this is a harmless message, but it >> bugs me... > > Do a > > rgrep smbpass /etc/pam.d > > and see, if you have an old config file there which references > pam_smbpass.so via absolute path. This can cause this error.
snowball:606$ rgrep smbpass /etc/pam.d /etc/pam.d/common-password:password optional pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok use_first_pass /etc/pam.d/common-auth:auth optional pam_smbpass.so migrate > Odds are, you can just remove the old config file and purge the package > you installed, because you don't need it.