On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:26:41PM +0200, Jacob Garder wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Jacob Garder wrote: > > >As I understand it, the message: > >pam_succeed_if: requirement "uid < 100" not met by user XXXX > >is not an error, just extra verbose information from PAM, right? > > > >How can I set the logging level lower, so I get rid of these messages? > > I suppose I could delete the line: > account sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_succeed_if.so uid < 100 > > in the file /etc/pam.d/system-auth, but what other effects might that > have? Why is it there in the first place (it was not in RH9)? > > /jacob It is supposed to make root logins possible even if the network authentication system (NIS,LDAP, ...) is unreachable. That was a serious problem on FC1 and earlier where an unreachable server or a misconfigured service could make it impossible even for root to log in. At least that is what I understood about it. David Jansen
