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Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> and a happy nerw year! |
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> My problem with PAM has several manifestations: |
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> 1/ I cannot login as root (I know I should not do that btw): |
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> "Login incorrect" (but I know my root password!) |
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> 2/ Using sudo su as a user: |
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> 12:32 jean@borixe /home/jean % sudo su |
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> Password: |
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> su : Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. |
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> (Ignoré) |
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> [root@borixe:/home/jean]# |
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> 3/ So I can do *some* admin jobs, but *not all;* specifically I cannot create a |
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> new user: |
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> [root@borixe:/home/jean]# useradd jojo |
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> useradd : échec de la méthode d'authentification PAM |
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> (ie, the pam auth method fails) |
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> I guess it is the same problem causing these behaviours, but am far from |
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> being an expert on that, so any help will be welcome! |
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> TIA |
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As I see it, you have to: |
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- boot from a CD |
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- mount your gentoo |
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- chroot into it |
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- change root password by "passwd" |
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- reinstall pam by "emerge -1 sys-libs/pam" |
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Note that the last step requires a working connection to The Internet. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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