Re: [Devil-linux-develop] groupadd PAM problem.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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On Tue, June 13, 2006 19:13, John Bridleman wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Bruce Smith <bw...@ar...> wrote:
>
>>
>>> I also get the same error when I try to delete a user or a group:
>>>
>>>
>>> root@squid :/etc # useradd test root@squid:/etc # userdel test
>>> userdel: PAM authentication failed
>>> root@squid:/etc #
>>>
>>>
>>> root@squid:/etc # groupadd test1
>>> root@squid:/etc # groupdel test1
>>> groupdel: PAM authentication failed
>>> root@squid:/etc #
>>>
>>
>> Does it fix the problem if you copy /etc/pam.d/groupadd to groupdel?
>>
>>
>
> I tried that before my last message and it didn't work.
>
>
> root@squid:/etc # groupadd test1
> root@squid:/etc # groupdel test1
> groupdel: PAM authentication failed
> root@squid:/etc #
>
>
> But after your message I tried it again and it works!
> root@squid:/etc # groupadd test2
> root@squid:/etc # groupdel test2
> root@squid:/etc #
>
>
> However, doing the same with userdel doesn't seem to:
> root@squid:/etc # useradd test3
> root@squid:/etc # userdel test3
> userdel: error removing group entry
> userdel: error removing shadow group entry
> root@squid:/etc #
> --
> John Bridleman

It seems we should look at this problem before we release 1.2.10.
Guess it's time to look how other distros handle this one, I don't think
it makes sense to list every single program here...

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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