I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look like this:
Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so): /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM adding faulty module: pam_smbpass.so Googling the error mesage, I see lots of very old bug reports (mainly 2008 timeframe, though a few are as recent as 2012 -- still pretty old) that look like this ubuntu forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770724 but nothing recent. The fix in almost all those cases seems to have been to install libpam-smbpass (which makes sense, since that's where pam_smbpass.so lives). I have that package installed, so I have /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_smbpass.so So... this is, of course, not the directory that's being reported as the location of the missing file, however PAM is supposed to search /lib/security/ and /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security for modules. I've tried putting a symbolic link from the real file to /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so, which only gives me a raft of different error messages having to do with failed page mappings. I don't have any i386 PAM modules (nor libpam0g:i386) installed, and (checking) have no /lib/i386/security/ directory at all. /lib/security has very few files in it (only pam_dbus.so pam_gnome_keyring.so pam_mount.so pam_unix2.so), and they're all x86-64. All my other PAM modules are (as far as I know) in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/, but pam_smbpass.so is the only one throwing the "no such file" error. So... any idea what's going on here, and more importantly how to fix it? I also see consistently that this is a harmless message, but it bugs me...
