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can't log in after upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ridgway)
Mon Oct 21 18:41:40 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:59:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Ridgway <ridgway@routh.UCSD.EDU>
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I just finished upgrading from 3.0.4 to 4.0, and now, neither root nor
anyone else can log in. It flashes ``Login failed'' (or whatever
it says) very quickly four times before it even asks for a password. This
is some kind of PAM thing, I know it, because I saw it when upgraded PAM
without the rest of 4.0 before I did the full upgrade. Before I was able
to fix it by restoring my old pam.conf, but this time, it got destroyed...
My /etc/pam.conf was a soft link to /etc/pam.conf.rpmsave, which I
realize now was a bad idea. Rpm helpfully moved the link, leaving me with
pam.conf.rpmsave -> pam.conf.rpmsave and my working conf file in
oblivion. Ouch! My fault, maybe, but also an rpm bug.
What could be causing this? Do I really have to understand PAM? Is this a
FAQ?
I guess this goes under the category of a failed upgrade.
doug.
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