[Pacemaker] crm_gui login failure

[Tim Serong]

On 9/28/2010 at 04:11 PM, Yan Gao <ygao at novell.com> wrote: 
> On 09/28/10 01:25, Phil Armstrong wrote: 
> > I'm running pacemaker-1.1.2-0.6.1 on sles11sp1. I was only able to 
> > successfully login to the crm_gui from one of my nodes in spite of the 
> > fact that the login parameters appeared to be identical. I traced the 
> > problem to a zero length /etc/pam.d/hbmgmt file on the node that 
> > exhibited the login failure. This file is part of 
> > pacemaker-mgmt-2.0.0-0.3.10, which I have installed on both nodes. 
> >  
> > I had no previous knowledge of this file and so I am quite sure it 
> > wasn't anything I did consciously to zero out the file, or to 
> > consciously populate it with the contents of the working node: 
> >  
> > #%PAM-1.0 
> > auth include common-auth 
> > account include common-account 
> >  
> >  
> > Can anyone tell me how this file is created or modified ? 
> The file is extracted from pacemaker-mgmt on package installation. 
> The back-end of the GUI (mgmtd) reads it for user authentication. 
> No one is supposed or needs to modify the file for any reason. 
>  
> So that's strange it was zeroed out. You might need to check the 
> modification time to recall what was happening. 

Wild guess - was your system STONITH'd or otherwise forcibly reset,
immediately after installing pacemaker-mgmt, and are you using XFS
for your root filesystem?

Regards,

Tim


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Tim Serong <tserong at novell.com>
Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc.