LOCAL users are unable to login on the system.
Issue
- LOCAL users are unable to login on the system, following errors are observed in
/var/log/secure
:
Aug 26 14:47:02 testsystem unix_chkpwd[5864]: check pass; user unknown
Aug 26 14:47:02 testsystem unix_chkpwd[5864]: password check failed for user (localuser)
Aug 26 14:47:02 testsystem login: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost= user=localuser
Aug 26 14:47:04 testsystem login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM tty1 FOR atosadm, Authentication failure
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7
- pam
- setup
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