[KLUG Members] PAM

[komal]

> > I am trying to figure out how PAM works. As a  learning exercise I want
to
> > set user password NULL or zero character. I know it is very bad
practice.I
> > am using fedora core 3.
> > auth        required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so
> > auth        sufficient    /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok
> > auth        required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
>
> Since "nullok" is present, a blank password should be good as is.


Well it is not working. I keep getting error message that password not
supplied.


>
> > account     required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
> > account     sufficient    /lib/security/$ISA/pam_succeed_if.so uid < 100
>
> What distro is this?  I've never met a pam_succeed_if module before,
> seems sort of like pam_limit;  also pam_unix is pretty much superseded
> by the much more robust and less documented pam_unix2
>
>

I am using Fedora core 3

Regards,

Komal