Re: User authentication problem (suspect PAM)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <54A7A9A6.6050407%zabrico.com@localhost>,
Louis Guillaume  <louis%zabrico.com@localhost> wrote:
>   o Because it takes deleting the local user account to make the
>     problem go away, I am led to believe that the failure is with
>     PAM. I think that, when pam_ldap.so fails, it tries the system
>     config and for some reason it authenticates the user.
>
>See also 
>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mail.sendmail/bJLc1frenKg , 
>where i posted some logs from the mail server.
>
>Any help with this would be fantastic. Thanks,

- Try connecting yourself as the user.
- Turn more debugging on; you can also turn on debugging for pam
- In the meantime block the spammer's source address via a firewall?


christos