From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D775F138A0A for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 362EF21C0A7; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm9.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm9.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.237.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A01A221C01B for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.198] by nm9.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Feb 2013 22:51:50 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.56] by tm9.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Feb 2013 22:51:50 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp109.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Feb 2013 22:51:50 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 454857.88911.bm@smtp109.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: tw211UcVM1mZN_Qo0ObNdkXJhkuPF9Rg9Fswb818p81UQpL pVlRgYfwkxpuVIAD61SXwA9WOscYQjVaEhkS5_1n0Vmj.CWp2xKoujJywQ5R E5dXPG.rNHVM0_mP.e91dGzWtIzdHmcd3_EtRkFX.RF.1VNYjw5IO7J6UnVo Ob97eh71lREZnD9VV_rHQ3KPEktWthxHe1KZQvMq9S5TNee0XVMTCtCeCXac bnjqeTIdmWry_KnAZrddL.JKB_VsWGNdCaqn133K5E.8cFqzJ6GIlfk0AU.0 JwSGhh14gbaE9b2qMn3lZnpoNWMH_2bwjA5IOMywsnfa1KsEu0O7wXgkdbdw kZgxmDuCozFnLp2.qMTnLqKdTWT9RK3QOpWFzLAisCijllchNeIp1MHCYvh9 fg.PLjZS_76qm8LiEG0YQbjdGT2PFdduqK5pc7NyfISgDdFUYhg6IJtpSw6l 27iMolYqTGTtehVdvZbceeNdCBawG0dgdwkuy7ZJXIMMOcbS2qaD5mpdpf0p T3sg1EvISOzpzopjxLPAKCKDb X-Yahoo-SMTP: oM3WcDSswBC7zv73TQKEsi7eAZ0- Received: from [192.168.1.2] (w41ter@69.234.189.68 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2013 14:51:50 -0800 PST Message-ID: <511C1907.6020801@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:51:51 -0800 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130208 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: pam_get_uid: no such user References: <511BE981.6030803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <511BE981.6030803@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5c593def-d7f2-44ec-b779-332218f2a00f X-Archives-Hash: cef866618e9f31886027ee0908a92183 On 02/13/2013 11:29 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > I updated my "server" a while back, and just recently I noticed this in > /var/log/messages: > > Feb 13 11:26:14 coretwoduo login[25575]: pam_tally2(login:auth): > pam_get_uid; no such user > > I have thousands of entries in my logs. It doesn't seem to prevent me > from logging in though. > > I have figured out that it's looking for a user 'auth'? I don't see that > on my system. > > Is this a misconfiguration of pam? Or update gone wonky? I've never seen > this before. For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be wrong somewhere. Just for fun I ran "emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this: #emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5.1-r1 [ebuild R ] net-mail/mailbase-1.1 [ebuild R ] app-admin/sudo-1.8.6_p6 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-0.110 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8 [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.6.1 [ebuild R ] net-misc/openssh-6.1_p1-r1 [ebuild R ] net-fs/samba-3.6.12 I mention this mostly because I learned very recently that emerge will accept a directory name and rebuild all of the packages that install files there. Maybe it won't help you but I'm looking for any excuse to use that new trick :) (Some wise gentooer posted that revelation here in the last month or so and I can't recall who it was, sorry.)