On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:56:48PM -0500, Ben Logan wrote: > 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. [snip] > 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 I haven't checked glibc, but it may not have the functions needed to find information about the users in it directly. Try adding libnss_files.so.2 to the /lib directory and see if that helps. If not, /var/ftp (for the anonymous FTP chroot) is probably a good example of a minimal setup to refer to, and it may include something else you might be missing. HTH, Nalin
