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This is a discussion on PAM erros - Security ; Since upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, I have started getting regular errors of the form: CRON[1034]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so CRON[1079]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so) CRON[1079]: PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or ...


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Old 04-26-2008, 03:47 PM
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Since upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, I have started getting regular
errors of the form:

CRON[1034]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so
CRON[1079]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so)
CRON[1079]: PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory]

Some of these errors occur when cron runs leafnode, but leafnode seems to
work OK

Can someone explain the significance of this?

Thanks,
- Richard
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Old 04-30-2008, 12:53 AM
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Richard Kimber wrote:

> Since upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, I have started getting regular
> errors of the form:
>
> CRON[1034]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so
> CRON[1079]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so)
> CRON[1079]: PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory]
>
> Some of these errors occur when cron runs leafnode, but leafnode seems to
> work OK
>
> Can someone explain the significance of this?
>
> Thanks,
> - Richard



No input, but I do have a question... what does cron run leafnode? There's
no possible reason for this to need to happen.

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Old 04-30-2008, 07:44 PM
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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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Old 05-02-2008, 12:12 PM
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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.
> --
> 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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Old 05-02-2008, 02:30 PM
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"C." wrote:

> > 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.


>
> 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)


Well, quite. I know nothing about pam and am reluctant to mess with it.

- Richard
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