Thread: PAM erros
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Old 05-02-2008, 12:12 PM
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Default Re: PAM erros

On 30 Apr, 20:44, Richard Kimber wrote:
> Jerry McBride wrote:
>
> > No input, but I do have a question... what does cron run leafnode? There's
> > no possible reason for this to need to happen.

>
> OK. Thanks. I'll look into that. Maybe I did it that way because I wasn't
> clear how to make fetchnews operate at the times and frequency that I
> wanted. It's been like that for quite a while.
>
> The original problem was solved by installing libpam-smbpass, though I have
> no need for it or any smb-related stuff. I can only think that some smb
> stuff was installed by default, but that they forgot to include
> libpam-smbpass.
>
> - Richard.
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> Richard Kimberhttp://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/


Wouldn't it just have been simpler to remove it from the relevant pam
config files?

(I'm not very familiar with Ubuntu but for most Linuxen....)

cd /etc/pam.d
grep pam_smb *

(but do make sure you're not removing *ALL* the authentication from a
service which requires it)

C.
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