Re: PAM denying valid user

["Kevin Schroeder" <kschroeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, you're right.  It looks like the author didn't have strcmp handled 
correctly when comparing passwords.  FTP is working now, although IMAP 
isn't.  I'm expecting that's a SASL issue, though, and not PAM.

Thanks for your help.
Kevin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thorsten Kukuk" <kukuk@xxxxxxx>
To: "Pluggable Authentication Modules" <pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: PAM denying valid user


> On Sat, Sep 04, Kevin Schroeder wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >    I'm having a problem with PAM denying authentication for a valid user.
> > I'm using the pam_mysql method to authenticate a user.  The user exists 
> > in
> > the database and in checking the query made I can see that the username 
> > and
> > password are matching at that pam_mysql is returning 7 (PAM_SUCCESS?).
>
> 7 means PAM_AUTH_ERR, not PAM_SUCCESS.
>
> > However, when attempting to log in with IMAP or FTP I get an 
> > authentication
> > failure error on both.
>
> Yes, since pam_mysql is returning an error, the user is not allowed
> to login.
>
>  Thorsten
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