pam messages

[nix4me]

Kam Leo wrote:

>On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:53:52 -0500, nix4me <nix4me at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>  
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>>I am getting bombarded with the following message in the
>>/var/log/messages log and I have no idea what is causing it.
>>
>>Jan  2 12:33:27 localhost pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/'
>>permissions are lax
>>Jan  2 12:34:02 localhost last message repeated 7 times
>>
>>Any ideas on what is causing this?
>>
>>Mark
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>You do not need to post twice.  
>
>Try reading the PAM administratior's guide:
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html
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>
I fixed it.  It seems there was a panel_icon task running and this 
process is not shutdown on a normal -9 shutdown.  I had to pkill -15 
pam-panel-icon to get rid of it.
 
Here is a link if anyone else encounters this problem.
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2002-q4/0187.html
 
Mark