Re: How does a user get locked out unintentionally?

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>]

Monique Mudama wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:15:58 -0500, David A. Cobb <superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:
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> > Yesterday I ran InteractiveBastille; but I passed up on some of the more
> > stringent choices.
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> [snip]
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> > I removed bastille, figuring it was the only security-related thing I've
> > done since her last login.
> > That also didn't help.
> >
> > I'm in deep doo-doo here!  Can anyone help?
> >    
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> I don't think removing the bastille package reverts the configuration.
> However, assuming you didn't purge, check out
> /var/log/Bastille/revert/revert-actions for a script that looks like
> it will undo whatever you did.  Or you can read through it and try to
> figure out which line might make the difference.
>  
Many thanks./  I actually was able to find it by tracing tha action-log for actions that addresseed a specific username.  I found one that added 'root,' and my normal login -- but not my wife's -- into some pam.config file.  I added hers as well and everything was fine.  Again, thanks.


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