#559369 libpam0g: please clarify "adding faulty module" error message

Package:
libpam0g
Source:
pam
Description:
Pluggable Authentication Modules library
Submitter:
Greg Kochanski
Date:
2010-03-07 15:48:09 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#559369#5
Date:
2009-12-03 22:42:47 UTC
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In /var/log/auth.log, I see this:

Dec  1 02:03:30 desk gdm[3635]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so): /lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Dec  1 02:03:31 desk gdm[3635]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so

But such a file doesn't seem to exist:


$ dpkg -S pam_gnome_keyring
dpkg: *pam_gnome_keyring* not found.
$
#559369#10
Date:
2009-12-04 11:51:49 UTC
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Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 22:42 +0000, Greg Kochanski a écrit :

It’s in libpam-gnome-keyring, which is a suggested package:

Unfortunately there is no way to enable the module for GDM only when it
is installed.

The warnings are harmless, though.

Cheers,
#559369#15
Date:
2009-12-04 14:40:03 UTC
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OK. Thanks.
Can the error/warning message be changed from
"PAM adding faulty module:" to "PAM adding faulty or nonexistant module:"

That would clarify the log files quite a bit.


Josselin Mouette wrote:
#559369#20
Date:
2010-03-07 15:44:50 UTC
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reassign 559369 libpam0g
severity 559369 wishlist
retitle 559369 libpam0g: please clarify "adding faulty module" error message
kthxbye
Reassigning to PAM.  Steve, as you can see below the issue is the error
message when libpam-gnome-keyring is not installed but /etc/pam.d/gdm
tries to load it.