SUMMARY Console needs no password

From: Bill Fenwick (bill@digicomp.com)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 16:27:09 EDT


As usual, the list comes through... thanks to Steve Devine who jogged my
memory with the following:

>Check /etc/pam.conf
>We had the same situation after we edited it to allow afs auth.
>
I had forgotten that I had started installing afs on this machine and
had changed pam.conf as part of the installation. I undid the changes
and everything's OK.

Original message:

> Running Solaris 8 (4/01) on an E250...
>
> I don't think this was always the case, but I've just discovered that
> any user who logs in on the console terminal for this machine doesn't
> need a password. Any ID in the passwd file or available through NIS
> (the machine is an NIS client) can be used to log in, and simply by
> pressing Return at the Password: prompt, they're in. Password
> protection seems to work correctly for telnet, ftp, rsh, and so forth.
> (fortunately!)
>
> The one thing I did do was edit /etc/default/login and change
> SLEEPTIME to shorten the amount of time before "Login incorrect" pops
> up after a bad login attempt... but I set this back to the default
> with no effect.
>
> Any ideas what I should look for here? I apologize if this is some
> ridiculous RTFM question; I tried to find mention of this in various
> pieces of documentation but didn't really know what to look it up under.
>
> TIA and IWS.

-- 
Bill Fenwick                            Email:  fenwick@digicomp.com
Digicomp Research                       Voice:  (607) 273-5900 ext 32
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