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

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:30:23AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> 
> Ben,
> 
> Out of despration, I tried the lines below instead of the ones you gave me.
> 
> Lines you had me use:
> auth     required       pam_unix_auth.so
> account  required       pam_unix_acct.so
> password required       pam_unix_passwd.so
> session  required       pam_unix_session.so
> 
> Lines taken from the other.dpkg-dist
> 
> > auth     required       pam_unix.so
> > account  required       pam_unix.so
> > password required       pam_unix.so
> > session  required       pam_unix.so
> 
> I can now login under a virtual terminal so I am going to try rebooting to see if that clears
> the xserver.  What does the difference between what you gave me and what seems to work?  Am I
> missing some files?

I suggest reinstalling the libpam* packages. The pam_unix_*.so modules are
only symlinks to pam_unix.so in the latest PAM packages. If that's not the
case on your system, then you had a bad upgrade (and most likely you
should reinstall _all_ of the PAM packages, not just the modules).

Ben