Re: Authpf closing connection spontaneously

[Arne Boettger <apb@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

Hello,

On Feb 22, 2004, at 22:43, George Kennedy wrote:
> I am having a problem with authpf on 3.4 generic.  If a user with 
> authpf set as their login shell tries to login the login seems to 
> proceed normally.  The username and password prompt is presented and 
> once the password is entered the motd is shown.  Then the user is 
> immediately logged out.
[..]
>
> So far I have checked these things:
>
> The authpf binary exists
> Users shell is set to usr/sbin/authpf
> /etc/authpf/authpf.rules exists
> /usr/sbin/authpf is listed in /etc/shells
> Deleted and recreated a blank /etc/authpf/authpf.rules
> Created a new users account to eliminate some odd problem with the 
> account.  Same results.  If I change their login shell to /bin/sh they 
> can login fine.

do you have an /etc/authpf/authpf.conf file? I did not after going from 
3.3 to 3.4, and I saw exactly the same behaviour.
Try just to touch it, that's all I needed to do.

Bye, Arne.
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