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Hi all, |
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I just performed a new Gentoo install, and am having a couple of issues |
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regarding authentication. I think that the problem is something to do with |
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PAM/Shadow. (No ... it's not the blocking issue between pam-login and |
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shadow). |
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I run a single user system with just users for myself (username: kris) and |
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root. I cannot su into the root account from my personal account. I have |
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added kris to the group wheel using the `gpasswd -a kris wheel', but still |
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cannot su. I verified that kris is in the wheel group by logging in and |
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trying the `groups' command. |
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Then, I tried editing `/etc/pam.d/su' and commenting out the line `auth |
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required pam_wheel.so use_uid', as the comment above it states that doing so |
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will allow users who are not in the wheel group to su. Still, no joy. Other |
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comments in that file state that you may give explicit rights to specific |
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users by creating the file `/etc/security/suauth.allow' with each allowed |
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user on their own line. Still, no joy. |
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On a (possibly) related note: while trying to switch from a graphical login to |
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a virtual console to work on some of these problems, I found that the usual |
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Ctrl-Alt-F* incantation did not work. The only way to switch to a virtual |
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console was to right click on the desktop and go through the `Switch User' |
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menu function on KDE. Further, when switching back to the graphical login |
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from the console, I found that the screensaver had come on and had locked the |
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desktop (though this was disabled within KDE's configuration). The big |
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problem, however, came when I could not unlock the screensaver with my |
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password. |
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Also, kris' attempts to change his passwd are met with the error: |
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`Authentication token manipulation error'. |
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Thanks in advance for all of your help. System information is appended below. |
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Kris Kerwin |
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========== System Info ========== |
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I run `pam-0.78-r3 USE=berkdb' and `shadow-4.0.15-r2 USE=nls pam' on the |
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following system: |
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Portage 2.1-r1 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, |
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glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686) |
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================================================================= |
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System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz |
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Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 |
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app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] |
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dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 |
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dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 |
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dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] |
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dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] |
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sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 |
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sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 |
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sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 |
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sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 |
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sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 |
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sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 |
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virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 |
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" |
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AUTOCLEAN="yes" |
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CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" |
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CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" |
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CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" |
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CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" |
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CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" |
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CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" |
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DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" |
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FEATURES="autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer |
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notitles sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" |
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GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org |
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http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" |
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MAKEOPTS="-j3" |
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PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" |
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PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" |
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PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp/build" |
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PORTDIR="/usr/target/ports" |
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SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" |
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USE="x86 X acpi adns aim alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid asm audiofile |
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avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cli crypt cups dga divx4linux |
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dlloader doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal f77 |
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font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 heimdal |
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icq imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes joystick jpeg kde |
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kerberos koffice-plugin libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime motif mp3 mpeg mplayer |
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msn ncurses nls nocd nptl offensive ogg opengl oscar oss pam pcre pda pdflib |
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perl png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection sdl |
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session smime spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts |
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udev unicode usb videos vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xmms xorg xscreensaver |
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xv yahoo zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse |
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input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon" |
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Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, |
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LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY |
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