Ubuntu Auth Issues with new repository code..

[Aki Tuomi]

The problem would appear that pam is reporting a system error, which fails your authentication. Are you supposed to be using pam?

Aki

> On December 28, 2017 at 12:50 AM Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>    I hear what your saying, but if you read and follow the repo page, it 
> says run update, and then upgrade.   Also as a test, I did remove the 
> old 2.2 code, and installed the new 2.3 code, and again authentication 
> fails.
> 
>   I am sure I may be missing something stupid, but the bottom line is, 
> how can I track down why it will not auth using PAM under the newer 
> code, when even looking at the auth modules, the configs appear to be 
> the same on 2.2 and 2.3, so I didn't see any adjustments I could 
> actually make..
> 
> 
> ---
> Howard Leadmon
> PBW Communications, LLC
> http://www.pbwcomm.com
> 
> On 12/27/2017 5:39 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
> > Why on earth you think you could upgrade versions by using two unrelated
> > and different repo's is beyond me.
> >
> > This has always been a problem, even back in the 90's with the RPMs, RH
> > v say for example Fresh, because package maintainers will package
> > differently.
> >
> > Its like trying to stick a cisco 1800 image on an ASR9K and expecting it
> > to work perfectly.
> >
> > Though we don't use deb or rpm based systems and haven't for about 15
> > years, if I was to, I think I'd be using the creators version, and not a
> > distro's version.
> >
>