From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H3vLD-0007Bz-P2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:19:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l08EI0R7029516; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:18:00 GMT Received: from borixe.bornier.net (lns-bzn-51f-81-56-145-104.adsl.proxad.net [81.56.145.104]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l08ECCuf028173 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:12:13 GMT Received: from boldair (boldair.bornier.net [192.168.0.3]) by borixe.bornier.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D3D63C1C for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:12:09 +0100 (CET) From: Jean Magnan de Bornier To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PAM problem References: <871wm7f4er.fsf@bornier.net> <200701081437.17898.list-gentoo-user@net4u.de> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:12:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200701081437.17898.list-gentoo-user@net4u.de> (Ernst Herzberg's message of "Mon\, 8 Jan 2007 14\:37\:16 +0100") Message-ID: <87hcv1ehff.fsf@bornier.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id l08ECCuf028173 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l08EI0RK029516 X-Archives-Salt: 90841481-b75b-466f-887f-7915a9f28503 X-Archives-Hash: 897499b488b6683060fda43c01d5915d Le 08 janvier =E0 14:37:16 Ernst Herzberg =E9= crit 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=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. > Indeed! Thank you, and also to Arturo (I won't try your tip but I keep it in mind for more hard times :-) ) cheers, --=20 Jean Magnan de Bornier | Cours Victor Hugo e-mots: jean at bornier.net | 13980 Alleins France T 08 70 39 34 03 | P 06 09 17 35 87 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list