Of course you could also reboot in single user mode, fix the pam config files back to their original state and reboot to multiuser mode. (I have learned to always keep a copy of my old pam configs when messing with the settings) On 27-Sep-2001 Ajay Agrawalla wrote: > Well well.. If you have sshd running on yr box, then try using a ssh > client to login to it. I almost certain that the distribution of ssh u > would have do not use PAM to login. Then look at the log files(authlog, > messages) to see what's going on. Unless they changed the ssh pam config too. > > If this does not work, then try login in to box using other possible > mechanism, like ftp, etc and replace the login module with one which > doesn;t use pam to authenticate. > > HTH > > Ajay > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pam-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:pam-list-admin@redhat.com]On > Behalf Of Ganesan Kanavathy > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 3:31 AM > To: pam-list@redhat.com > Subject: Cannot Login After Installing PAM > > > > > Hi there, > > Recently I have downloaded Linux-PAM-0.75 and installed on my linux > box running Redhat 7.0. > > I have faced real problem after rebooting the system. I cannot login on > the machine (not even telnet) .. it keep on going to the login screen. > > Something like it could not verify the password. > > But I noticed other programs like sendmail is running and email users > can retrieve and send mails. > > Please help me to solve this problem. What should I do in order to be > able to login into the system??? How do I restore the settings? > > Thanks in advanced. > > Regards, > > Ganesh > > > > -- John M. Trostel Senior Software Engineer Quantum / SnapAppliances jtrostel@snapserver.com
