tlug: PAM Pain and ...

[Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>]

Hi all,

Well, I'm still stumped by the Sparc Linux PAM stuff. It still
won't let me log in as a regular user for ftp.

I read the The Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide, and I
think I understand what it's supposed to do but
whenever I change the pam.conf file nothing happens.

Originally it looked like this:
# ftp authorization
ftp     auth       required     /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so  
ftp     password   required     /lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so
ftp     session    required    /lib/security/pam_unix_session.so

but even if I change everything to optional it still won't let
me login - keeps saying ftp USER expired.

Does PAM require a SIGHUP signal before it rereads its
configuration file? I guess I'm not really sure how Red Hat
modules work.

Anyone care to enlighten me before I start reverting to my
bad-old-DOS self and start rebooting after every conf edit?

Thanks,

Jim S.

BTW, the only references I could find about this via AltaVista
pointed to problems during the system install (not enough disk
space) but I don't think that's the problem here.
 
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