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From: Ernst Herzberg <list-gentoo-user@net4u.de>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PAM problem
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:37:16 +0100
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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=A0: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
> (Ignor=E9)
> [root@borixe:/home/jean]#

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

Maybe that could fix it.

<earny>
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