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Jim Kelly-Rand wrote: | I have a similar problem with the samba deamon. All my users can log in to the local | machine, but when they try to access a samba share they get an error mssg. to the | effect ERR.... ERR... "bad password pair in Tree connect...". I have not been able to | cure this problem by repopulating the smbpasswd file via the FM. I have read a lot on | the PAM modules which do all authentication checking, but there seems to be know | mechanism to check or repair a corrupted database. I unconverted from Shadow passwords | for the moment and that had no effect. I should post my error messages to the PAM list | but no time to do that now. I don't know if it is possible to uninstall PAM and | reinstall and still have access to the system. | Not much help I'm afraid. Hmmm ... I did notice the acronym PAM in the ssh INSTALL doc, but so far I don't really know what that means. The only PAM stuff that "man -k" knows about are: pam_console (8) - control permissions for users at the system console pam_xauth (8) - forward xauth keys between users userhelper (8) - A helper interface to pam. None of these seems to contain any clues explaining what it's all about. The ssh docs seem to say that PAM may or not be installed, and I don't seem to find anything at all that tells me whether I'm using it. I'm just supposed to know, I guess. Methinks there is a bit of improvement possible in the way this is documented. Maybe I'll recompile ssh with PAM enabled. I didn't do that before, and it worked (mostly) until just recently. But it's possible that I'll learn something fromt the exercise.
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