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  1. Bug #216990
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 216990

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 216990] Re: error in auth.log when switch user -- pam_smbpass.so

NoOp,

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:33:30PM -0000, NoOp wrote:

> However, this will be an issue for those that upgrade from Gutsy to
> Hardy (as I found out) and suddenly find that they can no longer log
> into their machine via VNC. Perhaps a patch issuing new /etc/pam.d
> /common-auth and /etc/pam.d/common-password with the pam_smbpass.so
> related lines commented out would be a better solution?

If you're unable to log in via VNC, then that's a much more serious error
and one that's not at all explained by these log errors: the absence of
this "optional" module should not cause any authentication failures, and it
was on that basis that the change was made to enable this module.

Please open a separate bug report about this issue and provide a link to it
here. We will need to pin down this VNC problem, which may warrant rolling
back the PAM config changes; the logging issue itself should be fixable with
a small patch, but I currently have no explanation for why you would
experience login failures with VNC that would be fixed by installing
libpam-smbpass.

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