/etc/pam.conf

[E. Vodegel]

Goodmorning,

This morning I get an ERROR message on my console.

ERROR: Check /etc/pam.conf file permissions and ownership.
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys /etc/pam.conf
Boot in single user mode for missing /etc/pam.conf

What I have tried is the next.
I boot to Singe user mode and changed the Owner and Group to bin bin. Next I rebooted the system, but I got the same ERROR message.

Then I did in Single User mode:
mv /etc/pam.conf /pam.test. But when I rebooted I got the same ERROR message.

Can someone help me? And how is this ERROR possible?

Thanks in advance,
Erwin

[Alex Glennie]

Is this a trusted system ? and/or a system that *may* have been upgraded from 10.20->11.xx by any chance ? If an upgrade how did you copy over the tcb dir etc and trust the system ?

NB the owner should be root and the group
should be sys !!!!

Have you tried copying /usr/newconfig/etc/pam.conf to /etc/pam.conf ?

It could be /usr/newconfig/etc/pam.conf file didnt get updated to the 11.0 version during the upgrade (if applicable) checksum of the pam.conf files would be useful to check this out .....

[Roger Baptiste · Accepted solution]

hi,

it could be possible that your /etc/pam.conf file is corrupted or got modified, hence the error.
To check this, copy
/usr/newconfig/etc/pam.conf to /etc/pam.conf and try again.
chmod 444 /etc/pam.conf
chown root:sys /etc/pam.conf

hth
raj