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

[Doug Thistlethwaite <doug.t@deltanet.com>]

Ok, I modified the file as you show below.

Did you notice that there was a file named other.dpkg-dist that had the following in it?
Not sure if this is important or not.
auth     required       pam_unix.so
account  required       pam_unix.so
password required       pam_unix.so
session  required       pam_unix.so

What should I do after this?  I am afraid to reboot and not be able to log in ever again...

I have attacked the output from dpkg -l | grep libpam

Thanks again,

Doug

Ben Collins wrote:

> 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

ii  libpam-modules  0.70-2         Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
ii  libpam-runtime  0.70-2         Runtime support for the PAM library
ii  libpam0g        0.70-2         Pluggable Authentication Modules library