[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#440871: pam authentication of vmware-authd fails on amd64

[Benjamin E. Schallar]

Hi!

First off, thank you for fixing the bug that quick! :-)

But I have to admit I did miss something when I reported the bug:

on i686, the standard pam module does a way better job than the one 
shipped with vmware (i.e. vmware's refuses to work on i686).

A working /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd would be e.g.

> #%PAM-1.0
> auth sufficient pam_unix.so shadow null ok
> auth required pam_unix.so shadow nullok
> account sufficient pam_unix.so
> account required pam_unix.so

This works for i686 - not on amd64.

Kind regards,
Benjamin