omiserver not able to find system-auth file on SLES 16 Public RC #777
Description
Hi,
We have encountered an issue on SLES 16 Public RC that omiserver is not able to find system-auth file. Due to this, the authentication is failing and we are not able to connect omiserver remotely through client. So, we are blocked in processing the further commands through omiserver.
Here are the logs below from the system for omiserver failing to find system-auth file.
2025-08-20T10:53:09.939103+02:00 localhost omiserver: PAM _pam_load_conf_file: unable to open config for system-auth
2025-08-20T10:53:09.939267+02:00 localhost omiserver: PAM _pam_load_conf_file: unable to open config for system-auth
2025-08-20T10:53:09.939415+02:00 localhost omiserver: pam_warn(omi:session): function=[pam_sm_close_session] flags=0x8000 service=[omi] terminal=[] user=[root] ruser=[] rhost=[]
2025-08-20T10:53:09.939804+02:00 localhost omiserver: PAM _pam_load_conf_file: unable to open config for system-auth
2025-08-20T10:53:09.939843+02:00 localhost omiserver: PAM _pam_load_conf_file: unable to open config for system-auth
2025-08-20T10:53:09.939917+02:00 localhost omiserver: pam_warn(omi:session): function=[pam_sm_close_session] flags=0x8000 service=[omi] terminal=[] user=[root] ruser=[] rhost=[]
PAM library version
localhost:~ # rpm -qi pam
Name : pam
Version : 1.7.1
Release : 160000.1.4
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Tue Aug 19 11:56:06 2025
Group : System/Libraries
Size : 1745772
License : GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-3-Clause
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri Jul 18 12:26:34 2025, Key ID fec28eaf09d9ea69
Source RPM : pam-1.7.1-160000.1.4.src.rpm
Build Date : Wed Jun 18 14:01:57 2025
Build Host : reproducible
Packager : https://www.suse.com/
Vendor : SUSE LLC https://www.suse.com/
VCS : https://src.suse.de/SLFO-pool/pam?trackingbranch=main#4ff302619f143b12cc9706640dfb39de1553e05a1c0f8369e9fb5f339344e243
URL : https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam
Summary : A Security Tool that Provides Authentication for Applications
Description :
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that
allows system administrators to set authentication policies without
having to recompile programs that do authentication.
Distribution: SUSE Linux 16
Content of /etc/pam.d/
localhost:~ # ls -la /etc/pam.d/
total 80
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 632 Aug 20 10:58 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3166 Aug 22 17:40 ..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Aug 19 11:56 common-account -> common-account-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1279 Aug 19 12:04 common-account-pc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Aug 19 11:56 common-auth -> common-auth-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1497 Aug 19 12:04 common-auth-pc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Aug 19 11:56 common-password -> common-password-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1373 Aug 19 12:04 common-password-pc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Aug 19 11:56 common-session -> common-session-pc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 26 Aug 19 11:56 common-session-nonlogin -> common-session-nonlogin-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1518 Aug 19 12:04 common-session-nonlogin-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1625 Aug 19 12:04 common-session-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 159 Aug 20 07:09 omi
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 Aug 19 11:56 postlogin-account -> postlogin-account-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1234 Aug 19 12:04 postlogin-account-pc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Aug 19 11:56 postlogin-auth -> postlogin-auth-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1372 Aug 19 12:04 postlogin-auth-pc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 21 Aug 19 11:56 postlogin-password -> postlogin-password-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1225 Aug 19 12:04 postlogin-password-pc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 Aug 19 11:56 postlogin-session -> postlogin-session-pc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1410 Aug 19 12:04 postlogin-session-pc
Regards,
Chaitanya.