Re: [webmin-l] Webmin users authenticating via PAM

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

There is your problem ... there are no references to pam_ldap.so in that file.
You should copy /etc/pam.d/sshd to webmin , and then restart the Webmin server.

 - Jamie

On 6/Sep/2006 15:09 Fran Fabrizio wrote ..
> 
> I should also add that Authen::PAM is installed, and the pam config file
> looks like:
> 
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth    required        pam_unix.so     nullok
> account required        pam_unix.so
> session required        pam_unix.so
> 
> Thanks,
> Fran
> 
> Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> > For some reason, I cannot get Webmin users with PAM-based password 
> > authentication to LDAP working on my install.  Our LDAP-based users are
> > able to log into the server that hosts Webmin, but not Webmin itself
> > when I configure them as Use Unix Authentication.
> > 
> > The particulars:
> > 
> > - Fedora Core 4 with webmin-1.280-1 RPM
> > - PAM configured via authconfig to authenticate users to LDAP, which
> > works for logging into the server itself
> > - In Webmin Configuration -> Authentication, I've selected Use PAM for
> > Unix authentication
> > - In Webmin Users, I've entered the names of 3 accounts known to exist
> > in LDAP and which work for logging into the server itself.  I've set
> > these accounts to Use UNIX authentication.
> > - IP access control is configured to allow from all addresses
> > 
> > The LDAP-based logins all fail, with just a simple "invalid login from
> > user fran from ip x.x.x.x" message in the /var/log/secure log file. 
> > Logins for users local to the server (namely, root) work fine.
> > 
> > Anyone know 1. what I am missing and 2. how to turn on more verbose logging?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -Fran
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Fran Fabrizio
> Senior Systems Analyst
> Department of Computer and Information Sciences
> University of Alabama at Birmingham
> http://www.cis.uab.edu/
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