security problem - missing PAM module

[Wulfy]

Karl Klinger wrote:
> Wulfy wrote:
>   
>> My logs are filling up with entries like the following:
>>
>>     
>>> May  8 03:17:01 localhost CRON[14556]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so)
>>> May  8 03:17:01 localhost CRON[14556]: PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
>>> May  8 03:17:01 localhost CRON[14556]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so
>>> May  8 04:02:01 localhost CRON[22857]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so)
>>> May  8 04:02:02 localhost CRON[22857]: PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
>>> May  8 04:02:02 localhost CRON[22857]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so
>>>       
>> It looks like PAM is trying to use Samba...  yet I don't have Samba 
>> installed.  How do I get rid of these entries?
>>
>>     
> I checked my auth.log and am getting similar entries.  This has been 
> reported as a bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/216990
>
> One suggested workaround is to install libpam-smbpass.  Another is to 
> comment out the lines referring pam_smbpass.so in /etc/pam.d/common-auth 
> and /etc/pam.d/common-password.
>
> Karl
>
>   
Thanks, Karl.

I commented out the lines...  we'll see if that stops all the log 
entries.  :@)

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