Originally posted by: SystemAdmin
Hi,
We have an AIX 5.3 machine that have an third-party LAM module installed. That module is basically used to provide access to remote users, so that remote user can login the machine via telnet, ssh, ftp, etc.
We udpated the system from 5300-00 to 5300-05-01, and found that some of the services (e.g. telnet) were not working for local users, though remote users did not have this problem. After some investigation, it seems that the /bin/login does not work as it usually does.
From the log of the third-party LAM module, this /bin/login asked for "account_locked" attribute of the local user at the very beginning, and the module returned failure with errno ENOENT. However, if the module (we changed it for testing) returns "false" and successful return code (0), then the local users are able to login.
The authentication methods we used for default users (in /etc/security/user) is:
SYSTEM = "REMOTESYS OR REMOTESYS
NOTFOUND AND compat"
I am thinking if this is a bug of the new AIX version. Any input will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
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