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Re: Help! Can't log into Colgate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Ruth)
Thu Oct 31 13:28:03 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 96 10:26:42 -0800
From: Richard Ruth <richardr@studio.disney.com>
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Re: Help! Can't log into Colgate
I just had the same problem: I couldn't log into my Linux box after
installing the RedHat 4.0 eratta. There was never a password prompt.
I found out the cause quickly:
THANK YOU RedHat for the searchable redhat-list archive.
Did I do something wrong when running the pam script from the errata page or
with rpm that caused this problem?
Richard
richardr@studio.disney.com
> I solved my own problem (yeah!) but I don't think this ever should have
> happened. Others beware. I suspect that updating to a new pamconfig rpm
> is what hosed me.
>
> Upon mounting Colgate's / from a Slackware /, I found that /etc/pam.conf
> was unusually short, containing entries only for "OTHER" and "DEFAULT"
> services. The timestamp was September (i.e., before release). Oddly
> enough, there was also a -much- longer pam.conf.rpmsave timestamped about
> the time I remember updating pamconfig via rpm. So I preserved pam.conf
> and mv'ed pam.conf.rpmsave to pam.conf and rebooted to Colgate. Voila! I
> can log in.
>
Thanks,
Kyle Ferrio
> On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Kyle Ferrio wrote:
>
> >
> > I thought the worst was over. :(
> >
> > The last time I succeeded in booting Colgate, I had to reinstall
> > a bunch of things, including pam and pamconfig. These would have been the
> > latest packages as of the evening of the 24th.
> >
> > The next time I booted (this morning) I can't log in. I get the login
> > prompt. Whatever I type, the system flashes "Incorrect login" four times
> > fast as soon as I hit return, clears the screen, and presents a fresh
> > login prompt. It never prompts for a password.
>
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