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PAM_pwdb problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J Yourchuck)
Fri Nov 6 14:54:19 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:55:58 -0600 (CST)
From: Nathan J Yourchuck <Nathan.J.Yourchuck@cdc.com>
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Hello,
I am having trouble adding any new users to my system. I am running Redhat
5.1. I have added users on other 5.1 machines before, but for some reason
things got screwed up when I tried to add users to this box.
The first time I tried to add the user I did this:
1) adduser njy
2) vi /etc/passwd and copied root's password field to njy's password
field
3) tried to login as njy and was denied
4) read intructions
5) tried to do a "passwd njy" (from root)
6) I still couldn't login
7) added a new user "frank"
8) "passwd frank" and set the password
9) I can't login as frank either
10) I tried playing around with pwconv and it didn't work.
11) I copied a passwd file from another Redhat installation and can't
login as any of those users either (except root).
Here is the message from /var/log/messages :
Nov 1 11:55:37 localhost PAM_pwdb[448]: get passwd; pwdb: structure is no
longer valid
Nov 1 11:55:38 localhost login[448]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR njy,
Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
Does anyone know how to reset the pwdb information? I have already tried
reinstalling the following RPMS (which did not help):
>pam-0.64-2.i386.rpm
>pamconfig-0.51-5.noarch.rpm
>passwd-0.50-11.i386.rpm
>pwdb-0.54-8.i386.rpm
thanks,
Nathan
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