Re: [tpop3d-discuss] PAM Problem (FreeBSD)

[Ben Schumacher]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am going thro a slight pb after upgdaring my FreeBSD 4.5 box to 4.6 (I
> haven't rebooted yet, so maybe this will go away). I just wanted some
> enlightenment on this error:
>
> Jul 29 12:37:41 ns2 imapd[98802]: Login user=cycleimpltd 
> host=acr.wananchi.com [62.8.64.6]
> Jul 29 12:37:41 ns2 tpop3d[321]: unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/pam_unix.so)
> Jul 29 12:37:41 ns2 tpop3d[321]: [dlerror: /usr/lib/pam_unix.so: Undefined 
> symbol "pam_test_option"]
> Jul 29 12:37:41 ns2 tpop3d[321]: adding faulty module: /usr/lib/pam_unix.so
> Jul 29 12:37:41 ns2 tpop3d[321]: auth_pam_new_user_pass: 
> pam_authenticate(abbas): Module is unknown
> Jul 29 12:37:41 ns2 tpop3d[321]: connection_do: client 
> `[7]62.8.66.14/ns2.wananchi.com': username `abbas': 1 authentication
> failures
>
>
> Thanks
>
> -Wash

You will probably need to recompile tpop3d after the upgrade. IIRC, the
PAM changed significantly between FreeBSD 4.5 and FreeBSD 4.6. (I believe
they switched from Linux-PAM to NetBSD's PAM implementation.)

HTH.

bs.