11-12-2009
Has the pam.conf got changed ?
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thank you very much. pam.conf was the problem. As I neither did the setup nor the updates I can only gues but it looks like someone "played" with the pam.conf and made additional entries. With the last patchbundle came additional stuff into this file and this caused the problems.
The other node in the cluster had not a modified pam.conf and there the patchbunde worked perfect. First time I`m happy that the nodes in these clusters have different setups...
Last edited by otheus; 11-13-2009 at 07:10 AM..
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
pam_deny
PAM_DENY(8) Linux-PAM Manual PAM_DENY(8)
NAME
pam_deny - The locking-out PAM module
SYNOPSIS
pam_deny.so
DESCRIPTION
This module can be used to deny access. It always indicates a failure to the application through the PAM framework. It might be suitable
for using for default (the OTHER) entries.
OPTIONS
This module does not recognise any options.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
All module types (account, auth, password and session) are provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_AUTH_ERR
This is returned by the account and auth services.
PAM_CRED_ERR
This is returned by the setcred function.
PAM_AUTHTOK_ERR
This is returned by the password service.
PAM_SESSION_ERR
This is returned by the session service.
EXAMPLES
#%PAM-1.0
#
# If we don't have config entries for a service, the
# OTHER entries are used. To be secure, warn and deny
# access to everything.
other auth required pam_warn.so
other auth required pam_deny.so
other account required pam_warn.so
other account required pam_deny.so
other password required pam_warn.so
other password required pam_deny.so
other session required pam_warn.so
other session required pam_deny.so
SEE ALSO
pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(8)
AUTHOR
pam_deny was written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Linux-PAM Manual 09/19/2013 PAM_DENY(8)