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pam_unix is the standard Unix authentication module.

pam_unix is the standard Unix authentication module. It uses standard calls from the system's libraries to retrieve and set account information as well as authentication. Usually this is obtained from the /etc/passwd and the /etc/shadow file as well if shadow is enabled.

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PAM: Confirm old password before changing to new password in SUSE Linux

OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Login as root server:~ # cat /etc/pam.d/common-password | grep -i ^PASS password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=9 dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 lcredit=-1 ocredit=-1 difok=4 password required …
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pam_unix.so Prints "authentication failure" on Successful Login

/var/log/messages shows a message like Jul 6 13:00:05 orbit-32 sshd[11517]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.168.98.106 user=admin although my password authentication suceeds and I am…
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ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

Ok so all of a sudden sql is not working properly on my server. When i run sudo service mysql start it says: Job for mysql.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered to the control process. See "systemctl status mysql.service" and…
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