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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
Looks like your PAM installation is hosed -- that's a PAM error
Do you know how to fix it? Is there a package that I can reinstall or something?
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...Quote:
Originally Posted by cpjust
If you don't care about root cause, you could try reinstalling all the PAM components
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?
Probably... but I'd check your configuration first to make sure it's not just a typo in a config file somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by cpjust