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Re: I broke my PAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Nov 8 12:57:27 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 1996 10:08:06 EST."
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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:24:56 -0500
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gregory j pryzby writes:
>Needless to say, I have hosed PAM. What can I do or How do I get PAM
>back working? I am not against, removing and installign anew the
>services that require/use PAM...
OK, here's how to re-initialize PAM. log in as root, and trim out all
the enties in the /etc/pam.conf file *except* the DEFAULT and OTHER
entries. Your /etc/pam.conf should now look about like this:
# The default behavior for services not explicitly listed here:
OTHER auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so
OTHER account required /lib/security/pam_deny.so
OTHER password required /lib/security/pam_deny.so
OTHER session required /lib/security/pam_deny.so
# The default behavior copied when ADDING NEW SERVICES which
# do not have special requirements (like checking rhosts files):
DEFAULT auth required /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so
DEFAULT account required /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so
# Do not add more than one password entry unless you know what you
# are doing!
DEFAULT password required /lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so
DEFAULT session required /lib/security/pam_unix_session.so
Now re-install the pam rpm (just in case something was screwed up
somehow that I haven't figured out) with
rpm -Uvh --force <path-to-pam-rpm>
Now re-run that script you mention:
rpm --qf '%{POSTIN}' $(rpm -q --whatrequires pamconfig) | sh -x
At this point, PAM will be reinitialized. Please let me know
if this does not solve your problem.
michaelkjohnson
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