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From: Ernst Herzberg <list-gentoo-user@net4u.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PAM problem
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:37:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701081437.17898.list-gentoo-user@net4u.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871wm7f4er.fsf@bornier.net>

On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:43, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> and a happy nerw year!
>
> My problem with PAM has several manifestations:
> 1/ I cannot login as root (I know I should not do that btw):
> "Login incorrect"  (but I know my root password!)
> 2/ Using sudo su as a user:
>
> 12:32 jean@borixe /home/jean % sudo su
> Password:
> su : Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
> (Ignoré)
> [root@borixe:/home/jean]#

At this point run
[root@borixe:/home/jean]# pwconv

Maybe that could fix it.

<earny>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-08 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-07 11:43 [gentoo-user] PAM problem Jean Magnan de Bornier
2007-01-07 12:16 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-01-07 13:59   ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-01-08  9:38   ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2007-01-08 13:18     ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-01-08 13:37 ` Ernst Herzberg [this message]
2007-01-08 14:12   ` Jean Magnan de Bornier

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