System asks for "System Password:" during login

[Generic User OI IIS]

Hello admins,

I have a problem on a hpux 11.11 server. When I try to login, I can enter user-account and password, but then the system prompts me for a system password. The prompt looks like this : "System Password:"

What state is the system in?
How can I solve this?

Thanks in advance,
Addie.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Addie,

What state is the system in? Abnormal. Potentially serious.

I'd log in as root at the console and check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for error messages.

bdf

look for full root filesystem.

SEP

[Generic User OI IIS]

Filesystems look OK, reboot didn't help either.
No strange things in syslog.

[Sameer_Nirmal · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It seems that someone has altered "/etc/pam.conf" file where a different authentication module has been included.

Login using root and check that file for lines like
login auth

You can compare this file with "/usr/newconfig/etc/pam.conf" to know the changes done. You can either revert back those changes or copy "/usr/newconfig/etc/pam.conf" file to /etc. Ensure the file permissions ,owner and group as 444 , root, sys respectively.

[Generic User OI IIS]

Hi Sameer,.
Thanks a lot, you're right. Looks like someone has been testing with samba and modified /etc/pam.conf. New lines were:
login auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 debug
OTHER auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 debug
I moved back the original file, and problem was solved.