pam_authenticate

[Sharon Bi]

Dear all,

One of our servers, when it's in the screen save, the following errors appeared:

DTSESSION:pam_authenticate: error authentication failed.
pamauthenticate status=9

But if you type in the right login name and the password, everything works fine.

Does get anyone know how to clear this error?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Sharon

[Kenneth Platz]

Sharon,

This is a normal function of CDE. The error you are seeing is because your user entered an incorrect password and thus PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) returned an error status of 9 when attempting to authenticate the user.

This error can be suppressed by modifying the /etc/pam.conf file:
/etc/pam.conf:

# PAM configuration
#
# Authentication management
#

login auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

su auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

dtlogin auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

dtaction auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

ftp auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

OTHER auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

(each of these sections should appear on a single line). On a 10.20 system, you may only see the emtries for dtlogin, dtaction and OTHER.

This is also documented in the pam_unix(5) man page.