On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:47:07PM +0200, Rogier Maas wrote:
Hi all,
I have this weird problem with proftpd and pam. Here is what happens:
[snip]
/etc/pam.conf Apr 9 13:39:44 myhost proftpd[553]: PAM pam_start: failed to initialize handlers Apr 9 13:39:44 myhost proftpd[553]: myhost (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - PAM(exit): Critical error - immediate abort. Apr 9 13:39:44 myhost proftpd[553]: PAM pam_end: NULL pam handle passed
And then these last few lines in my syslog. What do they mean?
It appears that proftpd is looking for /etc/pam.conf which should not be happening on a default SuSE 7.3 install. The PAM configuration can be stored either in /etc/pam.conf or in separate files, one for each service, in /etc/pam.d/, which is the way SuSE is initially set up. If the /etc/pam.d directory exists, PAM should use the separate files there and ignore /etc/pam.conf even if it exists. For proftpd, the relevant file is /etc/pam.d/proftpd. Do you have this file on your system? Did you install proftpd from the SuSE rpm? Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net