Re: Pam Errors

[Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>]

Simon Collyer wrote:
> Quoting Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>:

>> Those settings also look fine. This does not appear to be a
>> misconfiguration. Try reinstalling the PAM libraries (all one line):
>>
>> dpkg -l | grep "libpam" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs apt-get install
>> --reinstall
>>
>> This won't help you figure out what broke, but it should fix it. If you
>> want to find out exactly what the problem is, run 'su' under 'strace' to
>> see where the errors occur.

> Still no luck,  its complaining about the immediate configuration on
> libpam0g
> 
> Any other ideas?

Try changing the "libpam" in the grep command to "libpam-" (this will make
it skip libpam0g). Just tested on my machine, and it did let me reinstall
libpam-modules and libpam-runtime. Hopefully this will fix your problem.

Adam