Re: ppp refusing connections due to pam
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Ben Collins wrote: 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 Hello Ben, You are quite correct - as usual. It turns out that my caller simply got her name or password wrong. Ahem! It would happen on the first call when I saw UNIX_pam in the logs. Sorry to bother you over this. While I'm here I take the opportunity of thanking you for your efforts in the Debian project. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: ppp refusing connections due to pam
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 08:39:20AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: Hello Ben, You are quite correct - as usual. It turns out that my caller simply got her name or password wrong. Ahem! It would happen on the first call when I saw UNIX_pam in the logs. Sorry to bother you over this. No problem, there are very few people who can say they have never made silly mistakes (those who do say that are probably lying, i know I've made enumerable :) While I'm here I take the opportunity of thanking you for your efforts in the Debian project. Wow, don't hear that too often, thanks for the appreciation :) Ben
ppp refusing connections due to pam
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 My box is potato with some slink packages still installed. elm:# dpkg -l login libc6 libpam\* ppp\* ii login 19990827-4 System login tools ii libc6 2.1.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-modules 0.69-7 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM ii libpam-runtime 0.69-7 Runtime support for the PAM library ii libpam0g0.69-7 Pluggable Authentication Modules library ii ppp 2.3.9-1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. pn ppp-pam none (no description available) I have no idea at all what PAM_unix is or how to go about fixing this problem. I would just like to ppp working again which will buy me time to research all this properly. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: ppp refusing connections due to pam
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
