reassign 527307 pam
thanks
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:16:06PM +0300, juhak...@mail.student.oulu.fi wrote:
>
> If the user using passwd has a quota limit on the root filesystem, and
> that limit is reached by using passwd, the error message given is just:
> "passwd: Authentication token manipulation error", and the password is
> not changed. Nothing is written to /var/log/auth.log either in this case.
> The real problem can only be seen by runnin as root "strace -p" on the
> process. That reveals the following information: 'open("/etc/nshadow",
> O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = -1 EDQUOT (Disk quota
> exceeded)'.
The file is used by PAM to update /etc/shadow.
> After the user's quota of 4 bytes was removed, he could change his
> password normally. The situation would have been resolved much quicker,
> if passwd had relayed this error to the user by a distinct message,
> instead of the generic one.
This looks similar to 520184.
I don't think new error codes can be added to PAM.
Maybe strerror (errno) could be logged to syslog?
Best Regards,
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