Re: [gentoo-server] PAM log entry

[Woody2143]

Those error messages have been coming up in a few different posts
round the forums as of late. It seems the lastest pam update b0rked a
few things in terms of remote logins. Nobody has a good answer and a
proper fix from what I have seen, but if you need to get in to the box
do the following:

Edit /etc/security/pam_env.conf
Comment out the following lines:
REMOTEHOST    DEFAULT= OVERRIDE=@{PAM_RHOST}
DISPLAY               DEFAULT=${REMOTEHOST}:0.0 OVERRIDE=${DISPLAY}
XAUTHORITY    DEFAULT= OVERRIDE=@{XAUTHORITY}


This may somehow be a very evil or Very Bad Thing to do security wise
so use at your own risk; but I can say for sure that it solved my
problem with logging in remotely.


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:37:58 -0800, Ben Munat <bent@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started seeing this repeatedly in my log/messages:
>
> PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; XAUTHORITY
>
> Anyone know what this means?
>
> Ben
>
> PS: That vpopmail entry I emailed about the other day turned out to be
> because my brother had set up his laptop -- and a couple friends --
> using postmaster to send mail! Not sure why, but that explains all the
> log entries with different IP addresses.
>


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