topic Re: Error in syslog in Operating System - HP-UX

Error in syslog

Naseemuddin Mohammed — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:55:42 GMT

Following error I am getting in Hp-UX11.X syslog.log on N4000 server.

Mar 26 09:58:03 pnpthca4 rexecd[29566]: PAM Status - 9, PAM Error Message - Authentication failed

Re: Error in syslog

Vincenzo Restuccia — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:30:58 GMT

You can see
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8723-90003/B8723-90003_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8723-90003/00/00/35-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8723-90003/00/00/35-toc.html&searchterms=pam&queryid=20010326-102921

Re: Error in syslog

Kenneth Platz — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:36:07 GMT

This PAM message simply indicates that someone attempted to authenticate through PAM (or the Pluggable Authentication Module) and failed. The most common cause of this error is that they entered an invalid userID or password.