[Fedora-directory-users] warnings in /var/log/secure

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Aaron Bliss <abliss at brockport.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  I have several redhat 4 and 5 machines authenticating successfully against
> our ldap servers.  I used authconfig to configure the clients and everything
> works great, ssh, vsftp, etc.  However, for some reason, I always see a log
> entry similar to the following in /var/log/secure, even though the login
> works;
>  Apr 10 08:34:27 server1 sshd[30937]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication
> failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=137.21.80.195
> user=user1
>
>  Here is the contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf
>  cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep -v \#
>
>  passwd:     files ldap
>  shadow:     files ldap
>  group:      files ldap
>  hosts:      files dns
>  bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
>  ethers:     files
>  netmasks:   files
>  networks:   files
>  protocols:  files ldap
>  rpc:        files
>  services:   files ldap
>  netgroup:   files ldap
>  publickey:  nisplus
>  automount:  files ldap
>  aliases:    files nisplus
>

I think we will need the contents of /etc/pam.d/system-auth for anyone to help .



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