On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:42:54PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I used apt yesterday to upgrade some packages including some libpam > > packages and now an incoming ppp connection fails with entries like this > > in the log: > > > > Oct 1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: check pass; user unknown > > Oct 1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: authentication failure; LOGIN(uid=0) > > -> CONNECT 57600 for login service > > Oct 1 21:17:10 elm login[25488]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM FOR CONNECT 57600, > > Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. > > > > Connections worked yesterday morning. I use mgetty with this line: > > > > /AutoPPP/ - au_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd debug > > Where are your ppp users coming from (NIS, /etc/passwd)? It seems that it > cannot find the user that is logging in. > > Ben
Hello Ben, You are quite correct - as usual. It turns out that my caller simply got her name or password wrong. Ahem! It would happen on the first call when I saw "UNIX_pam" in the logs. Sorry to bother you over this. While I'm here I take the opportunity of thanking you for your efforts in the Debian project. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
