Hi. No not at the moment. I have had to park this due to other priorities. Any help would be much appreciated. The progress I made was that. I have never had to configure PAM before however I know the machines I work on the sshd turns it off
KB-2696: PAM authentication fails on Solaris 11.1 Mar 22, 2017 centos - Cron jobs have stopped working due to PAM - Unix Jun 24 12:40:01 server1 crond[26129]: (admin) PAM ERROR (Authentication information cannot be recovered) Jun 24 12:40:01 server1 crond[26129]: (admin) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Authentication information cannot be recovered) Jun 24 12:40:01 server1 crond[26130]: (admin) PAM ERROR (Authentication information cannot be recovered) Jun 24
PAM: On Debian systems the PAM modules run as the same user as the calling program, so they cannot do anything you could not do yourself, and in particular cannot access /etc/shadow unless the user is in group shadow. - If you want to use /etc/shadow for Exim's SMTP …
What does error "PAM: authentication error for illegal
sshd[902]: debug1:PAM: password authentication failed for
The pam_get_authtok function returns the cached authentication token, or prompts the user if no token is currently cached. It is intended for internal use by Linux-PAM and PAM service modules. Upon successful return, authtok contains a pointer to the value of the authentication token. Note, this is a pointer to the actual data and should not be free()'ed or over-written! PAM Configuration Reference - Managing Authentication in For example, the default authentication operation for the passwd application contains one module, pam_passwd_auth.so.1, in the /etc/pam.d/passwd file. auth required pam_passwd_auth.so.1 If, on the other hand, multiple modules implement a service, those modules are said to be stacked , that is, a PAM stack exists for that service name. PAM configuration for ValidateUser and Permission Denied