ubuntu 14.04 PAM questions

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:32:13 +0000 (UTC)
Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello again All.
> 
> Hope everyone's fine this fine afternoon :-)
> I have an update issue again with another (different) Ubuntu 14.04 X64
> server.
> 
> If I try to update via GUI (software updater)  the following
> pop-window comes on screen :
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> PAM Configuration 
> ---------------------------
> No PAM profiles have been selected.
> 
> No PAM profiles have been selected for use on this system. 
> This would grant all users access without authenticating, and 
> is not allowed. Please select at least one PAM profile from 
> the available list.
> 
> 
> PAM Profiles to enable :
> 
> [ ] Unix Authentication
> [ ] Winbind NT/Active Directory authentication
> [ ] Register user sessions in the systemd control group hirerarchy
> [ ] SMB password synchronization
> [ ] GNOME Keyring Daemon - Login Keyring management (I would prefer
> this one not to enable it) [ ] Inheritable Capabilities Management
> 
> Unix Authentication and SMB password sync are selected since I need
> those.
> 
> However I keep pressing forward and it doesn't go anywhere .
> 
> Any ideas ?

What happens if you run 'sudo pam-auth-update' from a shell? Does it
throw any error messages?

Petter

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