Re: pam broken in sid

[Daniel Wagner <e9925791@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

"Michael B. Taylor" <mtaylor@vorticity.engr.utk.edu> writes:

> As others have stated, the -26 version of pam in sid is broken, so if you 
> install it, you wont be able to login at all.
> 
> Unfortunately, I *have* installed it and don't have a session open.
> Question:  What is the best way (using a rescue disk) to 
> fix/circumvent/whatever pam well enough to be able to login once and repair 
> the situation with the new debs?

hi,

i fall into this pit too, and on bugs.debian.org i found the following
solution:

boot your kernel with init=/bin/bash

remount your your rootfs rw (e.g. with /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh
mount other filesystems (/etc/init.d/mountall.sh)

then install the old packages with dpkg.

that's the i've done it and it worked.

hth,
daniel

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