No Conv Element in PAMH?

[Sharad]

Hello Alainna,

The two errors are not connected in anyway. The file pam_stack.so is not
provided with Linux-PAM package and is a OS specific one. So it has to be
copied after loading Linux-PAM package.

Secondly, the error is generated by the linux-pam library when it tries to
retrieve the username. There can be many reasons for this. The following
options can be tried -
1. Upgrade your Linux-PAM package.
2. Reinstall login application(comes as a part of util-linux package).
3. If neither of the above two works, try to debug the 'login' application
(/bin/login).

Feel free to contact me any other information.

Thanks,

Sharad Chandra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alainna C. Wonders" <awonders at aharinc.com>
To: <pam-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 3:43 AM
Subject: No Conv Element in PAMH?


> Good evening,
>
> I was modifying PAM on an server running RH6.2 libs with RH9.0 kernel, and
I
> rebooted the system.  When it came back up I was unable to log into the
> console.  I can, however, get an SSH session.  When I did this, I managed
to
> catch the lines:
>
> [dlerror]: /lib/security/pam_stack.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> such file or directory
> PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_stack.so
> "no conv element in pamh" in /var/log/messages.
>
> The version of pam is 0.72-x.
>
> It said it couldn't find pam_stack.so in /lib/security, so I went ahead
and
> SCP'ed it over from another box with the same OS/PAM combo that works (I
> still haven't a clue how it disappeared in the first place; I was editing
> files in /etc/pam.d).  It no longer gives the error that it can't
find/open
> the file, but I still get the error about 'no conv element'.
>
> I only saw one hit (in English) for this in Google groups, but there was
no
> reply as to how to repair this.
>
> Any help is very appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Alainna
>
>
>
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