Authentication 'failure' success

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:08:34AM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> We are using OpenSSH (portable) version 3.0.1p1 on Linux 2.2.14-10 with 
> RedHat's distribution of PAM 0.72-20.6.x for rsync'ing RRDTool data 
> between two machines (among other things).  When running 'rsync -essh 
> -avz', everything works fine but the system log on the sshd side shows:
> 
> PAM_pwdb[8021]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> rrd for sshd service 
> sshd[8021]: Accepted publickey for rrd from 216.168.105.35 port 3908 ssh2 
> PAM_pwdb[8021]: (sshd) session opened for user rrd by (uid=0) 
> PAM_pwdb[8021]: (sshd) session closed for user rrd 
> 
> Lines 2, 3 and 4 seem fine, but what's with the first line claiming 
> there was an authentication failure?  Any other information necessary 
> can be easily providedm, but I'm not subscribed to this list so CC: me
> on replies.

This looks like the usual "no password" authentication test.  If it is,
then it's perfectly normal.

Cheers,

Nalin