Re: Cannot Login After Installing PAM

Ganesan Kanavathy <ganesh15@tm.net.my> · Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:15:38 +0800

Dear Sir,

       How do I check 
whether sshd is running on my box and how do I to change it to use ssh client to 
login. I am really new to Linux world.

Regards,
Ganesh

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Ajay 
  Agrawalla 
  To: 'pam-list@redhat.com' 
  Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:03 
  PM
  Subject: RE: Cannot Login After 
  Installing PAM

  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.

  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