I am no linux expert, I am just the person who originally tried to file the bug but if you follow my instructions in the first post with the modification describe below, I think you may have success. I have only tried it on 32 bit installs but it has worked on all of those and I cannot see why it would not work on a 64 bit install either
edit /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd
1. sudo cp /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd.orig
this means you have a copy of the original file if you make a mistake.
3. You must do this on the server you want to connect to, not the machine you are connecting from
4.You probably need to do this everytime apt installs a newer version of vmware until it gets fixed because on all the updates I have instaled so far the file gets overwritten.
Hi Wilbur,
I am no linux expert, I am just the person who originally tried to file the bug but if you follow my instructions in the first post with the modification describe below, I think you may have success. I have only tried it on 32 bit installs but it has worked on all of those and I cannot see why it would not work on a 64 bit install either
edit /etc/pam. d/vmware- authd
1. sudo cp /etc/pam. d/vmware- authd /etc/pam. d/vmware- authd.orig
this means you have a copy of the original file if you make a mistake.
2. change the file from
#%PAM-1.0 vmware- server/ lib/libpam. so.0/security/ pam_unix2. so shadow nullok vmware- server/ lib/libpam. so.0/security/ pam_unix_ auth.so shadow nullok vmware- server/ lib/libpam. so.0/security/ pam_unix2. so vmware- server/ lib/libpam. so.0/security/ pam_unix_ acct.so
auth sufficient /usr/lib/
auth required /usr/lib/
account sufficient /usr/lib/
account required /usr/lib/
To
#%PAM-1.0 /pam_unix2. so shadow nullok /pam_unix_ auth.so shadow nullok /pam_unix2. so /pam_unix_ acct.so
auth sufficient %pamdir%
auth required %pamdir%
account sufficient %pamdir%
account required %pamdir%
3. You must do this on the server you want to connect to, not the machine you are connecting from
4.You probably need to do this everytime apt installs a newer version of vmware until it gets fixed because on all the updates I have instaled so far the file gets overwritten.
Hope this helps.