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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Thomas HOUSSIN wrote:
> I had the pb, and fixed it this way : (this is an almost exact
> copy/paste from the bug report)
>
> PAM seems indeed reponsible for this. When useradd or groupadd is
> used, PAM checks for permissions for the user. If there's no pam file
> for useradd or/and for groupadd, default is to ask for password
> (although it could be to deny access on some boxes, depending on the
> settings.)
>
> The solution is to add useradd (which is created by shadow), and
> groupadd (which is not created), whith something like :
>
> auth            sufficient      pam_rootok.so
> auth            required        pam_unix_auth.so
> account         required        pam_unix.so
> session         required        pam_unix.so
> password        required        pam_permit.so
>
> the pam_rootok line will allow authentication without asking for
> password if user is root. May be groupadd should be added to shadow to
> solve this issue.

Thanks for that. :) I hope it fixes the bug (could those with the
problem report back if the above fixes it?).

I'm wondering what changed to bring this behaviour on as I've used
Linux-PAM for years and didn't have this problem until libaccount was
moved out of Sorcery and into the grimoire.

-sandalle

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