[Bug 294977] Re: not clear how to configure with pam-auth-update

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:11:03AM -0000, Brian May wrote:
> Hmmm. You appear to have missed the action=store, so the cached
> credentials will never be saved in the first place.

The ccreds config is split between two separate profiles, needed because the
generated config snippets are concatenated linearly.

> I am not really certain what this action=update is - probably need to
> read the source to find out

According to the documentation, "update" is (for some reason) a synonym for
"delete".

> Unfortunately I it doesn't seem to install properly either :-(

> Selecting previously deselected package libpam-ccreds.
> (Reading database ... 172884 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libpam-ccreds (from .../libpam-ccreds_8-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up libpam-ccreds (8-1ubuntu1) ...
> Use of uninitialized value $3 in split at /usr/sbin/pam-auth-update line 237, <INPUT> line 16.
> Use of uninitialized value $modline in substitution (s///) at /usr/sbin/pam-auth-update line 239, <INPUT> line 16.
> Use of uninitialized value $mod in substitution (s///) at /usr/sbin/pam-auth-update line 242, <INPUT> line 16.
> Use of uninitialized value $mod in hash element at /usr/sbin/pam-auth-update line 243, <INPUT> line 16.
> Use of uninitialized value $mod in hash element at /usr/sbin/pam-auth-update line 244, <INPUT> line 16.
> Use of uninitialized value $modline in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/pam-auth-update line 258, <INPUT> line 16.

Not able to reproduce this here.  Can you provide a copy of
/etc/pam.d/common-auth, /var/lib/pam/auth, and /var/lib/pam/seen?

> Somehow pam-auth-update also chmod 600 my /etc/pam.d/common-* config
> files! So xscreensaver wouldn't authenticate anymore :-(.

> Maybe it doesn't like my umask of 077?

Correct.  Debian bug #518042, fixed in pam 1.0.1-7.

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