VMware Server 1.x installation on ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit) -- Failing

[duren]

PS: If the mui login locks you out (permission denied) the problem is that ia32-libs in 10.04 are missing the pam modules (/lib32/security/pam*.so). (vmware is requesting the 32bit libs for auth).

To solve this problem, I used mc (midnight commander) to peer into my 32bit distro and grab the pam modules out of the iso/pool/main/p/pam/libpam-modules_1.1.1-2ubuntu2_i386.deb package and popped them into /lib32/security where they belong..

then I modified /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd to look like this

#%PAM-1.0
auth       sufficient       /lib32/security/pam_unix.so shadow nullok
auth       required         /lib32/security/pam_unix_auth.so shadow nullok
account    sufficient       /lib32/security/pam_unix.so
account    required         /lib32/security/pam_unix_acct.so

.. to have it use the correct modules. I looked at many other posts regarding the modification of this file and nothing helped.

Finally, I can start using this archaic software. I wish they didn't switch to web based nonsense in v2, then I wouldn't have to worry about this old version.

They are attached for your convenience.