From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMEY9-0005ya-AE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:05:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02EF3E029B; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF33EE029B for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733F76640A for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:04:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 3.212 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.212 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=3.210, BAYES_50=0.001, STOX_REPLY_TYPE=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Xvh6LjJeF2yY for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mxsf05.insightbb.com (mxsf05.insightbb.com [74.128.0.75]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B28670F6 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:04:51 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,250,1215403200"; d="scan'208";a="470109475" Received: from unknown (HELO asav03.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.124]) by mxsf05.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 25 Jul 2008 00:04:50 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlUFAEvuiEhKitHx/2dsb2JhbACBWoIah3alVA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,250,1215403200"; d="scan'208";a="54787894" Received: from 74-138-209-241.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO bluegrasspals.com) ([74.138.209.241]) by asav03.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 25 Jul 2008 00:04:40 -0400 Received: from BOE (unknown [192.168.0.105]) by bluegrasspals.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C218955C200 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:04:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000f01c8ee0b$900385a0$6900a8c0@BOE> From: "Jayson Smith" To: Subject: [gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc. Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:04:40 -0400 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Archives-Salt: 9953cfff-b1d9-4ce2-8baf-df99e9bb18e7 X-Archives-Hash: a9b4894ec4015050580d749c0ea8b99d Hi, I'm running Gentoo. As part of an unrelated package upgrade, PAM got upgraded. Ever since, or sometime afterward, anything requiring a username and password fails. My POP3 server fails, I can't even log in as root! If I try to log in at the console, it takes the username, which can be a real or a non-existent user, and doesn't ask for a password, but instead waits three seconds or whatever, and tells me the login is incorrect. Thank Goodness, I do have exactly one console window logged in as Root, so I'm not totally locked out. I had upgraded PAM in the recent past. Could it be that I need a reboot? Only reason I don't do this is... My ISP blocks port 25, so I have to manually run a redirector program to forward another port to port 25 on my Linux system. I don't know how to get this to run automatically at startup, easily. And wouldn't you know it, I have a Mailman list going which I really don't need to have down, as it's pretty important. So, if I reboot and am still locked out, then I'm screwed. If I can't log in as root, then I can't start redir. No redir, no SMTP, no Mailman, unhappy list members. Any thoughts? I'd love to think a reboot would solve the problem, but don't want to chance a total lockout. I don't assume there's a way to say to a system, "I am the almighty God of this system, and you *will* let me in as root!" One other thing. I'm blind, and use Speakup with a speech synthesizer. Obviously I don't listen to the stuff that goes on during an emerge. So, if it told me anything important I must do in order to avoid this situation, I missed it. Usually when this happens it beeps a bunch of times, but I don't remember hearing any beeps. Thanks for any help. Jayson