Comment 23 for bug 112937

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the hardware I'm using requires me
to run 9.04...

------ Original Message ------
From: mshadle <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 2:35 PM PDT
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 112937] Re: vmware server will not connect remotely

I went back to 8.04 or so and it works then. Sadly, 9.04 and possibly
even 8.10 don't work :(

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vmware server will not connect remotely
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112937
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Status in “ia32-libs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
this is for the package vmware-server in the commercial repository but this cant be chosen from your list of packages

When installing vmware-server there is an error in the file /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd

the file is installed as follows:
#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient %pamdir%/pam_unix2.so shadow nullok
auth required %pamdir%/pam_unix_auth.so shadow nullok
account sufficient %pamdir%/pam_unix2.so
account required %pamdir%/pam_unix_acct.so

however the %pamdir%/ should not be in each line and instead it should read:

#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient pam_unix2.so shadow nullok
auth required pam_unix_auth.so shadow nullok
account sufficient pam_unix2.so
account required pam_unix_acct.so

This then allows people to remotely connect through vmware server console.

Also when installing on feisty server make is a dependency but is not installed so the install fails until make is installed