[CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

[vincenzo romero]

Hello thanks for the reply:

answers inline:

>  You can't.  PAM is compiled into the authentication programs.  Without PAM
>  you'd never be able to login at all!  It's PAM that actually checks your
>  password etc etc etc.

ok ....

>  This normally means you're trying to login as "root" but the terminal
>  you're using is not listed in /etc/securetty

yes, and i'd like to login as root unsecurely ... but I also tried
with a regular user, to no avail ....

i tried regular user and i tried root ...

Feb 21 09:06:48 localhost login: pam_securetty(login:auth): access
denied: tty 'tty1' is not secure !
Feb 21 09:06:51 localhost login: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM (null) FOR root,
Authentication failure
Feb 21 09:06:57 localhost login: FAILED LOGIN 3 FROM (null) FOR sofia,
Authentication failure
Feb 21 09:06:58 localhost login: pam_securetty(login:auth): access
denied: tty 'tty1' is not secure !


>
>  Two solutions:
>   1) Add tty1 to /etc/securetty
>  OR

all tty1's were added to securetty file:

vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
tty11

still symptom persists.

>   2) comment out the pam_securetty lines in /etc/pam.d/*  files
>         ( maybe only /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/remote )
>

i'll try that ...