topic dtsession in Operating System - HP-UX

dtsession

I.Delic — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:36:44 GMT

Hi,
I get this message in my syslog file. This has to do with my dtsession but i don't know wat.
Something with authenticate
Nov 17 14:27:18 vandra17 DTSESSION: pamauthenticate status=0
Nov 17 14:27:18 vandra17 DTSESSION: pam_acct_status status=0
Nov 17 15:40:36 vandra17 DTSESSION: pamauthenticate status=9
Nov 17 15:40:39 vandra17 DTSESSION: pamauthenticate status=0
Nov 17 15:40:39 vandra17 DTSESSION: pam_acct_status status=0
Nov 17 15:53:28 vandra17 DTSESSION: pam_acct_status status=0
Nov 17 15:53:23 vandra17 DTSESSION: pamauthenticate status=9
Nov 17 15:54:44 vandra17 above message repeats 11 times
Nov 17 15:53:28 vandra17 DTSESSION: pamauthenticate status=0
Nov 17 16:00:15 vandra17 DTSESSION: pamauthenticate status=9
Nov 17 16:00:27 vandra17 DTSESSION: pamauthenticate status=0
Nov 17 16:00:27 vandra17 DTSESSION: pam_acct_status status=0

Thank you

Re: dtsession

Stefan Farrelly — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:41:34 GMT

Take a look here;

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=114048

Re: dtsession

Robert-Jan Goossens — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:47:16 GMT

Hi,

How to turn off pamauthenticate warnings in syslog.log DocId: KBRC00002457

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000063200479

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: dtsession

Madhu Sudhan_1 — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:13:14 GMT

Regarding the messages, previous updates point you on how to disable them.

In short, PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module. Which is an industry standard framework which provides additional security to HP-UX systems. Starting HP-UX 10.2 PAM was introduced for authenticating CDE components.

How it works ? (Excerpt from docs)
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A system may use any user-authentication method, such as the /etc/passwd file, NIS, NIS+, or Trusted System. Programs requiring user authentication pass their requests to PAM, which determines the correct verification method and returns the appropriate response. The programs do not need to know what authentication method is being used.

Hope this clarifies.

-Madhu