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Re: can't log in after upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd A. Wood)
Mon Oct 21 22:27:42 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:27:14 -0400
From: "Todd A. Wood" <tawood@earthlink.net>
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Doug Ridgway wrote:
>
> 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...
>
Boot to single user mode or off the install disk and mount your root
partition
edit /etc/pam.conf and comment out the OTHER entries at the top... or
replace the deny libs with the DEFAULT ones from below.
Easy as that.
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