Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pam_get_uid: no such user

[Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>]

On 02/13/2013 02:51 PM, walt wrote:
> 
> For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be
> wrong somewhere.  Just for fun I ran "emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this:
> 
> #emerge -p /etc/pam.d/
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r1 
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5.1-r1 
> [ebuild   R    ] net-mail/mailbase-1.1 
> [ebuild   R    ] app-admin/sudo-1.8.6_p6 
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-auth/polkit-0.110 
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8 
> [ebuild   R    ] net-print/cups-1.6.1 
> [ebuild   R    ] net-misc/openssh-6.1_p1-r1 
> [ebuild   R    ] net-fs/samba-3.6.12 
> 
> I mention this mostly because I learned very recently that emerge will
> accept a directory name and rebuild all of the packages that install
> files there.  Maybe it won't help you but I'm looking for any excuse
> to use that new trick :)  (Some wise gentooer posted that revelation
> here in the last month or so and I can't recall who it was, sorry.)
> 

I've poked into this a bit more, and every 60 seconds 5 attempts at
logon are being made. I am thinking that the install is corrupted now -
I had a SSD fail in this machine, and I was able to recover the data off
of it. I'm now thinking that maybe wasn't such a good idea...

I've tried disabling cron and it still does it, and my crons are not
running still, so I'm thinking something is borked on the box.

This weekend I'll reformat & reinstall.

Dan