Hi,
I installed Ubuntu server 8.04 and I was able to change the root password.
Then after installing a bunch of packages I created a user and tried running this (as root): passwd username and got this error:
Has anyone seen this before? What could cause passwd not to work?Code:passwd: Module is unknown passwd: password unchanged
"I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008
"the internet is a scary place to be thats why i dont use it much." - billet, 03/17/2010
Looks like your PAM installation is hosed -- that's a PAM error
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
Do you know how to fix it? Is there a package that I can reinstall or something?
"I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008
"the internet is a scary place to be thats why i dont use it much." - billet, 03/17/2010
I can't say for sure since I don't know your configuration of PAM. It looks like it's trying to load an authentication module that isn't installed, or possibly a module that doesn't actually exist. I'd start with the PAM man pages...Originally Posted by cpjust
If you don't care about root cause, you could try reinstalling all the PAM components
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
Running dpkg -l | grep pam reports:
How do I reinstall them?Code:ii auth-client-config 0.6.1 pam and NSS profile switcher ii libpam-ldap 184-2ubuntu2 Pluggable Authentication Module allowing LDA ii libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM ii libpam-runtime 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.1 Runtime support for the PAM library ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules library
Do I just apt-get remove and then apt-get install each of them?
"I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008
"the internet is a scary place to be thats why i dont use it much." - billet, 03/17/2010
Probably... but I'd check your configuration first to make sure it's not just a typo in a config file somewhere.
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
