* [gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc.
@ 2008-07-25 4:04 Jayson Smith
2008-07-25 16:27 ` Florian Philipp
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From: Jayson Smith @ 2008-07-25 4:04 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc.
2008-07-25 4:04 [gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc Jayson Smith
@ 2008-07-25 16:27 ` Florian Philipp
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Florian Philipp @ 2008-07-25 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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Jayson Smith schrieb:
> 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...
Maybe you need to update a configuration file. Did you run dispatch-conf
or etc-update after the emerge? I'd advice against using etc-update and
would use dispatch-conf, by the way. They both come with portage.
> 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.
You can put custom bash-scripts into /etc/local.start . They will
execute after the last "normal" init-script.
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