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From: Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@bornier.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PAM problem
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:12:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcv1ehff.fsf@bornier.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701081437.17898.list-gentoo-user@net4u.de> (Ernst Herzberg's message of "Mon\, 8 Jan 2007 14\:37\:16 +0100")

Le 08 janvier à 14:37:16 Ernst Herzberg <list-gentoo-user@net4u.de> écrit notamment:

| 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.
>

Indeed!
Thank you, and also to Arturo (I won't try your tip but I keep it in mind
for more hard times :-) )

cheers,
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-08 14:19 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
2007-01-08 14:12   ` Jean Magnan de Bornier [this message]

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