[OpenIndiana-discuss] PAM Error (/etc/pam.conf no initial module present)

[Patrick O'Sullivan]

Hello all,

I successfully have gotten authentication to an AD Kerberos server
working along with uid/gid resolution from AD LDAP. However, I am
getting a strange PAM error and the only reference I can find for it
is in the OpenSolaris PAM source code.

root at oitest1:~# uname -a
SunOS oitest1 5.11 oi_147 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris

Now, logging in from another machine:

$ ssh userfoo at oitest1
Password:
Your Kerberos account/password will expire in 9801 days.


Last login: Sat Nov 13 13:42:30 2010 from 10.128.6.55
OpenIndiana     SunOS 5.11      oi_147  September 2010
-bash-4.0$ id
uid=20002(userfoo) gid=30000(staff)
-bash-4.0$ getent passwd userfoo
userfoo:x:20002:30000:User Foo:/home/userfoo:/bin/bash

Now, the weird part. At the time of logging in, I get the following log entry:

Nov 13 13:45:25 oitest1 sshd[3925]: [ID 414352 auth.error]
/etc/pam.conf no initial module present
Nov 13 13:47:09 oitest1 last message repeated 3 times
Nov 13 13:47:11 oitest1 sshd[3945]: [ID 414352 auth.error]
/etc/pam.conf no initial module present

Here's my /etc/pam.conf:

root at oitest1:~# egrep -v "^\#" /etc/pam.conf
login   auth requisite          pam_authtok_get.so.1
login   auth required           pam_dhkeys.so.1
login   auth required           pam_unix_cred.so.1
login   auth sufficient         pam_krb5.so.1
login   auth required           pam_unix_auth.so.1
login   auth required           pam_dial_auth.so.1
other   auth requisite          pam_authtok_get.so.1
other   auth required           pam_dhkeys.so.1
other   auth required           pam_unix_cred.so.1
other   auth sufficient         pam_krb5.so.1
other   auth required           pam_unix_auth.so.1
other   account requisite       pam_roles.so.1
other   account required        pam_unix_account.so.1
other   account required        pam_krb5.so.1
other   password required       pam_dhkeys.so.1
other   password requisite      pam_authtok_get.so.1
other   password requisite      pam_authtok_check.so.1
other   password sufficient     pam_krb5.so.1
other   password required       pam_authtok_store.so.1

P.S. I also get this when logging in directly from console, except the
error is associated with login instead of sshd.

Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance.