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Re: authentication problem (PAM?)



On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:04, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said:
> > I'm not sure if this is really the culprit, but all fingers seem to
> > point this way. I just did an update (using experimental, yes I know
> > this is to be expected :) and now my GDM logins are broken. I keep
> > getting a Authentication Error when I try to log in with any user.
> > /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/passwd were changed during the update,
> > but I've tried rolling back the changes with no success. Any
> > suggestions on what to start checking? (I know this is sparse on
> > details but I don't know where to find any more details. Any pointers
> > are appreciated.)
> > 
> > -Alex
> 
> It sounds like you installed the pam from experimental as well.  You
> don't need it, so dump it.  Download the pam modules from your regular
> distribution (sid, I'm guessing), and install with dpkg -i (maybe
> --force-downgrade as well).  There is a bunch of pam stuff in
> experimental, and from the talk on -devel, it's not so stable. 

Unfortunately I'm using gdm2 which depends on libpam0g >= 0.75. Sid
currently has 0.72-35. Is there some way to roll back to the version
that USED to be in experimental? (Or at least some version after 0.75
since Sid is still as 0.72?) TIA.

-Alex

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