Hello, I'm trying to put together a boot/root disk pair, and have run into some trouble with PAM. The instructions in the Bootdisk-HOWTO didn't work at all, and I've been unable to resolve the problem by reading the PAM docs, although I got a little farthur. The programs I'm using on the disk come from my Redhat 7.1 system. I can give a complete listing of my root disk if necessary (I'll even upload it somewhere if anyone needs to see the whole thang :). In the meantime perhaps my pam.d dir and error message will suffice: My /etc/pam.d directory contains but one file -- login #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so account required /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so password required /lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so shadow session required /lib/security/pam_unix_session.so I've got the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files (copied from my RH box). I've got all of the libraries mentioned in the file above plus: ld-linux.so.2* libc.so.6@ libnsl.so.1@ libtermcap.so.2* libc-2.2.2.so* libdl.so.2* libpam_misc.so.0* security/ libcrypt.so.1* libnsl-2.2.2.so* libpam.so.0* I've also included /sbin/unix_chkpwd. Here's the message I get when I try to login: login: root Password: login(pam_unix)[40]: check pass; user unknown login(pam_unix)[40]: authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost= login[41]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR root, Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info Login incorrect login: Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0
