[rsbac] "Unable to lock password into physical memory!"
Amon Ott
ao at rsbac.org
Mon Apr 24 09:33:43 CEST 2006
On Freitag 21 April 2006 16:24, Orosz Tamás wrote:
> I tried the rsbac UM module, but if I want to disable or change the
users's password, I get the following error:
>
> server:~# rsbac_usermod -P root
> Unable to lock password into physical memory!
>
> I tried this in global softmode first.
>
> The strace output is:
> server:~# strace -e mlock,mlockall rsbac_usermod -P root
> mlock(0x746f6f72, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate
memory)
> Unable to lock password into physical memory!
>
> I use rsbac 1.2.5.1 with 2.6.14.4 kernel.
>
> What made I wrong? Any suggestions?
This is only a warning, because the password might be swapped out to
your swap partition. We should make the warning a bit clearer.
Amon.
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