So is there no way to make this go away? To get rid of the annoying delay I added a 'nodelay' option to system-auth in the pam.d dir. But I would like to just have a stock install work.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:52:40 -0500 (CDT) > Justin Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > then whenever I try to ssh into one of the NIS servers, before I am > > prompted for a password I see this in the messages log: > > ServerA sshd(pam_unix)[10180]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 > > euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= rhost=some.host.here user=jrush > > Then I am prompted for a password and can login fine. > > Hi Justin, > > There is nothing to worry about here. This failure is just the > secure shell asking if the user is allowed to log in without a > password. It's a bit unfortunate that this logging happens. > >From looking at the internals it could almost be called a bug. > Syslogd is also in _serious_ need of a modern replacement. > Personally I disable these warnings although this means the log > entries for successful login/logout are also suppressed. > > Cheers, > Sean > > > -- Justin Rush Technical Specialist Internet Scout Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
