Re: Ooops. I've broken my command line.

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

chris harrison wrote:

> I seem to have broken the cardinal rule of tinkering - I'm not
> able to back out the change because I'm not sure what I've broken. 
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> I've been trying to configure my machine (woody) to authenticate
> with the PDC on the local win2k network, using samba, winbind and
> pam. 
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Without accounts on the local machine?! Oh, man, if you get this done, 
write up a how-to. Please. Seriously.

> All's been going reasonably smoothly, I can mount windows shares
> on to my machine, although the other direction was not so easy. 
> Sometimes I could see the linux machine from the windows net, 
> sometimes not. 
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> Then something seriously broke. I would try to login and nothing 
> would happen. After a while I realised (through trawling through
> /var/log/auth.log) that it wasn't a problem logging in, it was
> what happened next. 
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> Nothing. That's what happens next. It doesn't matter if I login, 
> su, ssh or even try to create a new xterm, each time it gives me 
> a login prompt and authenticates ... but then hangs. Nothing. 
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What happens if you try to log in with single-user mode?

Maybe boot off another system (Knoppix CD, mount the Debian system and 
restore any pam files you may have changed back to their originals.

> What happens next? I'm a relatively newbie to this level of admin, 
> so any pointers would be gratefully received. Even pointers at 
> the manual I've obviously not been able to find so as to be able 
> to read! 
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> Many thanks. 
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