When users login via LDAP, the authentication failure message is outputted to /var/log/messages
Issue
- When a user logs in by using the LDAP authentication the authentication failure message was output to
/var/log/messages
if its password entry in the ldap server is encoded with PLAIN or SSHA. /var/log/
messages:
remote(pam_unix)[xxx]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=pts/3 ruser= rhost=xxx user=xxx
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- ldap client uses
nss_ldap-253-5.el4
or later - All architectures
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