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

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

I can not log in and the passwd function still give me a segmentation fault.  I will remove
pam-apps.

Do I need to do anything else to get the changes I've made to be recognized?

Doug

Ben Collins wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> > 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...
>
> You should try to login. Also, do you have pam-apps installed? If so,
> remove it, and make sure that the passwd and login packages are up to
> date 19990827-x is the latest).
>
> > I have attacked the output from dpkg -l | grep libpam
>
> Everything there looks ok, latest PAM.
>
> Ben