Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:51:47AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Ok Ben,  here they are.
> 
> One other thing to note:  During the install I had a message with "modutils" stating
> that The form:
> Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10 was replaced with the form:
> Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10/fs
> 
> I could not find where to change thi.  I did find a file called conf.modules.old that
> had command lines like those described above.  Could this be causing a problem with
> pam?

No, completely unrelated.

> OTHER   auth     required       pam_deny.so
> OTHER   account  required       pam_deny.so
> OTHER   password required       pam_deny.so
> OTHER   session  required       pam_deny.so

Here's the problem, not sure where the settings in this file came from.
The distributed other looks like this:

##########
#
# /etc/pam.d/other - specify the PAM fallback behaviour
#
# We fall back to the standard UNIX access. If this is not secure enough
# for your purpose, consider specifying pam_deny.so instead.
#
auth     required       pam_unix_auth.so
account  required       pam_unix_acct.so
password required       pam_unix_passwd.so
session  required       pam_unix_session.so
##########

Change /etc/pam.d/other to look like this. Also, run this and see what
versions of the PAM libraries you have installed:

dpkg -l | grep libpam

Thanks,
  Ben