On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 17:45 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:44:08 +0200, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > > > I have a strange problem on one of my debian squeeze boxes. when I try > > to become root (or any other local user), su fails with > > > > su: Authentication failure > > > > and no, the password is correct :) > > (...) > > > My best guess is, that the problem is with my pam-configuration, but I > > have a lenny box with exactly the same pam-config that runs without > > problems. > > > > So any hints where to start looking are greatly appreciated. > > A very (very) wild guess... do you have installed "libpam-ldapd"? It > seems to be available for Squeeze/Sid but not for Lenny so maybe now that > you updated the system it could be a requirement to fulfill for ldap > logins :-?
no I do not have pam-ldapd installed (I use pam-ldap). But thanks for the idea. I will investigate further. But any other ideas are still welcome. cheers, Hp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1288183683.4405.38.ca...@franz.ifi.uzh.ch
