passwd bug: passwd: module is unknown

Zackary Deems <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.arklinux.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I installed 8.2 clean last night, set passwords for arklinux and root, 
then proceeded to apt-get dist-upgrade.  Afterwards, I added a new user 
and attempted to set a password for it, but was given the error:

passwd:  module is unknown

looking in /var/log/messages reveals that PAM is trying to load a 
'faulty' module "/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so" which has an undefined 
symbol 'sidmap_attr_list'

chances are, removing the PAM entry for samba would probably fix it, but 
we need to figure out how to prevent this.

Steps of installation:

-Installed base Ark 1.0 alpha 8.2. 
-set passwords for arklinux and root
-Installed the 'extra software' cd. 
-Performed an apt-get -f install
-Performed an apt-get dist-upgrade.
-Installed the developer CD
-Attempted to add a new user and set it's password - failure

Attempts to resolve the problem:
-rpm -e --nodeps samba
-apt-get -f install samba
not fixed
edited /etc/pam.d/system-auth and commented out the require line for 
pam_smbpass.so

fixed the problem.

Dunno why it's got unresolved symbols, but until that gets resolved, 
commenting out the require line (or not requiring samba for PAM at all) 
fixes it.
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