Re: [gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc.

[Florian Philipp]

Jayson Smith schrieb:
> Hi,
>
>     I'm running Gentoo. As part of an unrelated package upgrade, PAM got
> upgraded. Ever since, or sometime afterward, anything requiring a username
> and password fails. My POP3 server fails, I can't even log in as root! If I
> try to log in at the console, it takes the username, which can be a real
> or a non-existent user, and doesn't ask for a
> password, but instead waits three seconds or whatever, and tells me the
> login is incorrect. Thank Goodness, I do have exactly one console window
> logged in as Root, so I'm not totally locked out. I had upgraded PAM in the
> recent past. Could it be that I need a reboot? Only reason I don't do this
> is...

Maybe you need to update a configuration file. Did you run dispatch-conf 
or etc-update after the emerge? I'd advice against using etc-update and 
would use dispatch-conf, by the way. They both come with portage.


>     My ISP blocks port 25, so I have to manually run a redirector program
> to forward another port to port 25 on my Linux system. I don't know how to
> get this to run automatically at startup, easily. And wouldn't you know it,
> I have a Mailman list going which I really don't need to have down, as it's
> pretty important. So, if I reboot and am still locked out, then I'm
> screwed.

You can put custom bash-scripts into /etc/local.start . They will 
execute after the last "normal" init-script.