PAM opie issue on upgrade to 14.4 (from 13.5)

[Paul Macdonald]

Hi ,

I'm seeing issues with services that depend on pam_opie, (so far just
cron failing, and not ssh thankfully).

I followed the usual freebsd-update process i've done hundreds of times,

does this pam stuff have to be done manually or did i mess up?

Paul



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[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:54:28 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote:
>
>
> Hi ,
>
> I'm seeing issues with services that depend on pam_opie, (so far just
> cron failing, and not ssh thankfully).
>
> I followed the usual freebsd-update process i've done hundreds of times,
>
> does this pam stuff have to be done manually or did i mess up?

opie was removed. There is a port now security/opie.

20221002:
OPIE has been removed from the base system. If needed, it can
be installed from ports (security/opie) or packages (opie).
Otherwise, make sure that your PAM policies do not reference
pam_opie or pam_opieaccess.