pam_start(): system error

[Tim Dunphy]

Hello list,

 My freebsd 8.2 box has a new, interesting error. When I go to change
any user password I see the message passwd: pam_start(): system error
as in :

[root at LBSD2:/etc/pam.d] #passwd
Changing local password for root
passwd: pam_start(): system error

passwd is able to see it's libraries:

[root at LBSD2:/etc/pam.d] #ldd /usr/bin/passwd
/usr/bin/passwd:
        libpam.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.5 (0x2808e000)
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28096000)

Here are my libraries:

[root at LBSD2:/etc/pam.d] #ls /lib
geom                    libcrypt.so.5           libncursesw.so.8
libalias.so.7           libcrypto.so.6          libnvpair.so.2
libalias_cuseeme.so     libctf.so.2             libpcap.so.7
libalias_dummy.so       libdevstat.so.7         libreadline.so.8
libalias_ftp.so         libdtrace.so.2          libsbuf.so.5
libalias_irc.so         libedit.so.7            libssp.so.0
libalias_nbt.so         libgcc_s.so.1           libthr.so.3
libalias_pptp.so        libgeom.so.5            libufs.so.5
libalias_skinny.so      libipsec.so.4           libumem.so.2
libalias_smedia.so      libipx.so.5             libutil.so.8
libavl.so.2             libjail.so.1            libuutil.so.2
libbegemot.so.4         libkiconv.so.4          libz.so.5
libbsdxml.so.4          libkvm.so.5             libzfs.so.2
libbsnmp.so.5           libm.so.5               libzpool.so.2
libc.so.7               libmd.so.5
libcam.so.5             libncurses.so.8

I was wondering if there was a way to resintall pam under freebsd?

This machine is an 8.2 release

FreeBSD LBSD2.summitnjhome.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri
Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011
root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


thanks
tim

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