[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#443322: Bug#443322: login: immediate 'Login incorrect' after unknown user name

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Sun Oct 21 07:34:38 UTC 2007


Quoting Dwight Davis (sivad_thgiwd at yahoo.ca):
> Oops!, these lines are indeed different in my config,
> but they make no difference.
> 
> The line that is causing this behavior is:
> 
> auth       requisite  pam_securetty.so
> 
> According to the man page this module should have no
> affect if the username is not recognized. The default
> for the "requisite" keyword is to die.
> 
> Changing the keyword "requisite" to "required", as the
> man page recommends, causes the normal behavior of
> login. 


Yes, I confirm that.

I pinged Steve Langasek on IRC to get some more expert advice when it
comes at PAM stuff.


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