ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

[HughPH]

Python never fails to give me a headache.

Howdy just wasn't even starting the webcam, so I ran python3 /lib/security/howdy/pam.py and I got ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

So I installed it:

$ sudo pip3 install ConfigParser
Collecting ConfigParser
  Downloading configparser-5.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (22 kB)
Installing collected packages: ConfigParser
Successfully installed ConfigParser-5.0.1
WARNING: You are using pip version 20.2.1; however, version 20.2.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Then ran pam.py again:

$ sudo python3 /lib/security/howdy/pam.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/lib/security/howdy/pam.py", line 10, in <module>
    import ConfigParser
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

One final thing to make sure it's in the right place...

$ sudo python3 -m pip install ConfigParser
Requirement already satisfied: ConfigParser in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (5.0.1)

And just a quick check of sys.path:

$ sudo python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.path)"
['', '/usr/lib/python38.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.8', '/usr/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages',  '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/dlib-19.16.0-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']

Looks like the /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages path is in there... so what's going on?

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I've searched for similar issues already, and my issue has not been reported yet.

Linux distribution (if applicable): Ubuntu 20.04

Howdy version (sudo howdy version): 2.6.1

[arifer612]

You need to have python 2 for it to work. This is because the pam-python module only operates on python 2. If you have python 2 you should not have to worry about ConfigParser not being installed because it should be part of the standard library.

If you're just running pam.py, you would then have to run it using the python2 binary so it should be more like:

sudo python2 /lib/security/howdy/pam.py

[boltgolt]

@arifer612 is exactly right! ConfigParser is not the issue here, did you notice any errors in /var/log/auth.log?

[pavelkq]

My Debian 11 uses python3 as a default despite of I set up python2. How could I force to use python2 for howdi?