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?
Re: System asks for "System Password:" during login
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
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Re: System asks for "System Password:" during login
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.
Re: System asks for "System Password:" during login
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.
