On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Walter McGinnis wrote: > Ugh. I really screwed the pooch. I was almost done setting up a > box for a new web server and I installed a new PAM (pam-0.74- > something.tar.gz) from source over top of the one that comes with > the RH7 disks (pam-0.72-26.i386.rpm) and I can't log into the > machine anymore. I login and then it just sends me back to the > login screen again (if I don't enter my user name or password > correctly it tells me login incorrect, just like it should). > > I feel like a big idiot, I knew that RH came with PAM, but I > couldn't seem to find it and I wanted it for openssh, so I > downloaded the latest and proceeded to corrupt things... > > The computer is at my house and I can boot to runlevel 1 and edit > files, etc., so I'm able to make changes. I just don't know how to > fix the problem. I wish I had just run "rpm -q pam" in the first > place! > > Any suggestions? > > Walter > > rpm --replacepkgs <pam rpm>
