Re: Pam Errors

[Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>]

Please reply to the list, and not to me directly.

Simon Collyer wrote:
> Adam Aube wrote:

>> 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. 

> Okay tried doing the following

> dpkg --force-all --purge libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g
> apt-get install libpam0g libpam-modules libpam-runtime

> which worked, but I'm still left at the same problem.
> Still comes up with  Cannot retrieve authentication info.

Ok. Run a command that triggers this error (like su) under strace:

strace -o su-strace.log su

Then post the contents of su-strace.log to the list.

Adam