Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
oh cl! thanks ... i'm in .. now to figure out why my NFS-Root is a mess .. thank you so much! - V On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Barry Brimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting vincenzo romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > this is great - however one question in Step

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting vincenzo romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > this is great - however one question in Step 3: > > i vi what file? > > vi /etc/pam.d/ ?? > > or did you mean for me to create a file: /etc/pam.conf file and add > the contents you mention below? > > authsufficientpam_permit.so > > acc

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
this is great - however one question in Step 3: i vi what file? vi /etc/pam.d/ ?? or did you mean for me to create a file: /etc/pam.conf file and add the contents you mention below? authsufficientpam_permit.so > account sufficientpam_permit.so > passwordsufficient

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread Barry Brimer
Try this: 1. Copy /etc/pam.d to /etc/pam.d.save 2. Delete all files in /etc/pam.d 3. Create vi /etc/pam.d/other with the following contents: === authsufficientpam_permit.so account sufficientpam_permit.so passwordsufficientpam_per

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello thanks for the reply: answers inline: > You can't. PAM is compiled into the authentication programs. Without PAM > you'd never be able to login at all! It's PAM that actually checks your > password etc etc etc. ok > This normally means you're trying to login as "root" but the

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:16:15AM -0800, vincenzo romero wrote: > Hello all > > I would like to disable PAM authentication in my test server running > Centos5.1. You can't. PAM is compiled into the authentication programs. Without PAM you'd never be able to login at all! It's PAM that actual

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread nate
vincenzo romero wrote: > Hello Nate, Hi! > Since this is not a secure environment, would you be so kind to help > me and let me know how to disable PAM? .. :) If I knew off the top of my head of course I would reveal how. I've never investigated the topic. Sounds like you have so sorry I can't h

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello Nate, 1. It is just for my lab - deploying a few hundred servers for testing purposes - we are not concerned over security. 2. It's because I'm trying to get Root-NFS to diskless workstation running; and this is my latest challenge and struggle after having PXE/TFTPd and DHCPd running and

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread nate
vincenzo romero wrote: > I would like to DISABLE the PAM authentication; am unable to get the > answer after googl'ing for hours; if anyone is familiar on how to do > this: please advise. I am quite new to the intricacies of this OS; > please bear the naive questions. Since your quite new, may I

[CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all I would like to disable PAM authentication in my test server running Centos5.1. Currently I get an error that states: "Feb 22 02:01:31 localhost login: pam_securetty(login:auth): access denied: tty 'tty1' is not secure !" I would like to DISABLE the PAM authentication; am unable to ge