[Spacewalk-list] Error with PAM authentication after Upgrade to CentOS 7.4

[Michael Mraka]

Robert Paschedag:
> Am 28. Oktober 2017 20:37:08 MESZ schrieb "Millage, Joel" <jmillage at integrity-apps.com>:
> >I am using Spacewalk 2.6 with PAM authentication and have been for a
> >few months without issues. I updated from CentOS 7.3 to 7.4 this week
> >and now my PAM authentication no longer works with any of my users.  I
> >use PAM authentication with Kerberos 1.5.
...
> >I realize now I shouldn't have made my only admin user on PAM
> >authentication as I can't even login with spacecmd.  Is there any way I
> >can disable PAM auth on this user so I can login without PAM?  All the
> >tools I have found allow me to reset my password, but not disable PAM.
> >Any help would be great thanks!
> >
> >Joel
> 
> I think the rhnuser table should be a good starting point. But I don't know, if the authentication "type" is also stored there.

Unfortunately you can have only certain users using pam. It's a global option.
So disable pam, (re)set local password, fix the pam issue and reenable it.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat