Re: [gentoo-user] no prompt for password

[James Ausmus]

No problem-

May have just been a /etc/pam.d/* file that hadn't updated properly in
the first emerge of shadow.

Enjoy your new system (and Welcome to Gentoo, it sounds like!)

:)

-James


On 6/14/06, Sean <tech.junk@×××××××.net> wrote:
> James Ausmus wrote:
> > On 6/14/06, Sean <tech.junk@×××××××.net> wrote:
> >> Just built a system and all was going great, first time I have tried
> >> Linux in a very long time. After finishing up the build all worked fine
> >> till I was trying to get sound in place, followed the instructions for
> >> alsa in the handbook.
> >>
> >> Anyway, finished up, restarted the system, and now the system will show
> >> a login, I enter the user or root, but it never prompts to enter a
> >> password.
> >> Then just times out and eventually shows the login again.
> >
> > OK, so what happened is that you un-emerged pam-login (to remove the
> > block for the new version of shadow), but didn't emerge the new
> > version of shadow (or didn't have the pam USE flag set for shadow).
> >
> > What you'll need to do is to boot the LiveCD again, mount your hard
> > drive, chroot, env-update, source /etc/profile, and emerge the latest
> > version of shadow, ensuring that the pam USE flag is set.
> >
> > If one of my assumptions above is wrong, let me know, and we'll get
> > the problem figured out. :)
> >
> > -James
> >
> >
>
> Thanks James,
>
>         Pam and Shadow did show installed. Pam also showing in the USE flag.
> Isn't that one a default one?
> Anyway, added it manually as well to make.conf.
>
> Even though Shadow was in place, based on your message, I removed and
> added shadow again and am now able to log in.
> Still not sure what happened, but it is working.
>
>                                 Thanks again,
>                                 Sean
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