Authen::PAM - authentication failure

[Jan Dušek]

Hi, I'm trying to use the Authen::PAM module, but during the
installation process i get this (I tried it as the root as well as a
regular user):

$ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl
1..12
ok 1
---- The remaining tests will be run for service 'login', user 'root' and
---- device '/dev/pts/4'.
ok 2
ok 3
ok 4
ok 5
ok 6
ok 7
ok 8
ok 9
---- Now you will be prompted to enter your unix password. On some systems
---- this test will succeed only if you are running as 'root'.
Password:
not ok 10 (7 - Authentication failure)
ok 11
ok 12

I can proceed with 'make install', but then I get Authentication failure
anytime I do pam_chauthtok().

I've found this:
([url]http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~pelov/pam/download/Authen-PAM.README[/url])
....
Login Restrictions
------------------
Most of the current configurations of the 'login' service include a
module 'pam_securetty' or 'pam_access' which restrict the login of
some users (especially root) depending on the tty or the host name
they are logging from. The configuration files of these two modules
are /etc/securetty and /etc/security/access.conf respectively.
So if you are running 'make test' and get an error
'(Authentication failure)' on test 10 then this might be due to
login restrictions of PAM.
....

But /etc/security/access.conf is empty in my case and /etc/securetty
contains vc/[1-12] and tty[1-12].

I would greatly appreciate any help on this one.

Thanks

[Unregistered]

Add "pts/1" (or whatever test will show you after "ok 1"... like "---- device '/dev/pts/1'.") to end of /etc/securetty.