That was it. Thanks a lot Thorsten <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Thorsten Kukuk <<a href="mailto:kukuk@suse.de">kukuk@suse.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, May 27, Bernard Fay wrote: > Hi, > > I usually never have to fool in PAM as the default config files are ok. > This time I have a little problem that need to be diagnose. > > I have systems running SuSE SLES 9. In the logs I have the following > message: > > pam_unix2: cannot get options </div>This means pam_unix2.so is unable to open/read /etc/security/pam_unix2.conf. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > How can I find which options pam_unix2 is missing? > > Being a stranger to PAM, can you tell me what are good tools to diagnose > problems with PAM, if any? </div>For such error messages: the best is to look at the source. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Pam-list@redhat.com">Pam-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Bernard Fay