Re: PAM authentication problem

From: Hugo Chasqueira (hchasqueira@netcabo.pt)
Date: 03/24/03

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To: "Adam H. Pendleton" <fmonkey@fmonkey.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:34:08 +0000

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    Adam H. Pendleton escreveu:
    > I am having a problem with my Solaris 8 box, which seems related to PAM,
    > but it somewhat peculiar/troubling. I am able to login to the box via
    > telnet without a problem, but when I try to su to root, I get the
    > following:
    >
    > Mar 19 11:01:40 boromir su: [ID 308033 auth.debug] pam_acct_mgmt: error Get
    > new authentication token
    > Mar 19 11:01:40 boromir su: [ID 810491 auth.crit] 'su root' failed for root
    > on /dev/pts/2

    I had a similar problem with the same message, though i was using ssh.

    The problem was that the account had an expired password. I changed the
    password for that account and it worked again.

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    Hugo Chasqueira

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