Public bug reported: Prior working 8.04 system, upgrade to 8.10 breaks PAM authentication at logins, sudo, and gdm/gnome-screensaver with thinkfinger.
After forced pam-auth-update some improvements but pam upgrade broke with thinkfinger working system. On command line sudo will result in following sudo ls Password or swipe finger: [keyboard entered valid unix password] [sudo] password for yositune: [keyboard entered valid unix password] success or failure seems random... gnome-screensaver fails on all but correct fingerprint scans. logins will generally succeed or fail with both passwords entered. (I don't run any GDM or other login manager). --- cat /etc/pam.d/common-auth # # /etc/pam.d/common-auth - authentication settings common to all services # # This file is included from other service-specific PAM config files, # and should contain a list of the authentication modules that define # the central authentication scheme for use on the system # (e.g., /etc/shadow, LDAP, Kerberos, etc.). The default is to use the # traditional Unix authentication mechanisms. # # As of pam 1.0.1-5, this file is managed by pam-auth-update by default. # To take advantage of this, it is recommended that you configure any # local modules either before or after the default block, and use # pam-auth-update to manage selection of other modules. See # pam-auth-update(8) for details. auth sufficient pam_thinkfinger.so # here are the per-package modules (the "Primary" block) auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure # here's the fallback if no module succeeds auth requisite pam_deny.so # prime the stack with a positive return value if there isn't one already; # this avoids us returning an error just because nothing sets a success code # since the modules above will each just jump around auth required pam_permit.so nullok_secure # and here are more per-package modules (the "Additional" block) # end of pam-auth-update config ---- cat /etc/pam.d/common-password # # /etc/pam.d/common-password - password-related modules common to all services # # This file is included from other service-specific PAM config files, # and should contain a list of modules that define the services to be # used to change user passwords. The default is pam_unix. # Explanation of pam_unix options: # # The "sha512" option enables salted SHA512 passwords. Without this option, # the default is Unix crypt. Prior releases used the option "md5". # # The "obscure" option replaces the old `OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB' option in # login.defs. # # See the pam_unix manpage for other options. # As of pam 1.0.1-5, this file is managed by pam-auth-update by default. # To take advantage of this, it is recommended that you configure any # local modules either before or after the default block, and use # pam-auth-update to manage selection of other modules. See # pam-auth-update(8) for details. # here are the per-package modules (the "Primary" block) password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure sha512 # here's the fallback if no module succeeds password requisite pam_deny.so # prime the stack with a positive return value if there isn't one already; # this avoids us returning an error just because nothing sets a success code # since the modules above will each just jump around password required pam_permit.so # and here are more per-package modules (the "Additional" block) # end of pam-auth-update config ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Pam Authenticaion on X41 Thinkpad with Thinkfinger Broken under 8.10 Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301098 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs