Eugenio Diaz wrote:
>
> --- Warly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sandy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I'm a new Mandrake user, 7.1 with cooker to
> > follow, and have a question about
> > > the login program. I see what I think is a
> > moderately ghastly bug in 7.1 and
> > > wonder if it is fixed in development release, or
> > can be for next release.
> > >
> > > On an unsuccessful login, I see PAM output. This
> > is wrong. You may want to log
> > > that output and/or show it to the real user at the
> > next successful login, but
> > > you shouldn't display it on failure.
> > >
> > > I'm not authenticated so you shouldn't trust me
> > /at all/ and shouldn't tell me
> > > /anything/ beyond "login failed".
> > >
> > > The first discussion of this I saw was in:
> > >
> > > R. Morris and K. Thompson, UNIX Password
> > Security, CACM, Vol. 22, 11,
> > > TM 78-1271-5, pp. 594--597, 1979.
> > >
> > > and I've had quite a bit of fun since gloating
> > when various non-Unix systems
> > > get it wrong. It really upsets me to see a Linux
> > system muff this.
> >
> > isn't that a problem of syslogd not launched or
> > badly configured ?
>
> Try login by telnet (on other console, machine or X,
> of course) or on console #2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and if it
> doesn't show then there is something wrong (or ok)
> with syslogd. The cause could be that you modified
> your /etc/syslogd.conf to log everything or something
> to /dev/console.
>
Fresh install of 7.1, syslogd config unmodified.
It also happens on other consoles.
