On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:14:20PM -0400, You wrote: > > First, I get the following messages when attempting to begin a session > on the console or via Telnet. Secure shell sessions do not produce > these messages. The messages are as follows: > > configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify > administrator) > > Anybody have any idea what all of this stuff is about? Or where I need > to go to fix it?
This comes from the login package. You can fix this by removing/commenting the lines for these configuration variables in /etc/login.defs. When you updated login, you should have been asked whether you want to use your own /etc/login.defs or use the maintainer's one, or make a diff, weren't you? There is also an entry in the login's NEWS file about this. It should have been displayed if you use apt-listchanges. Kind Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
