after installing shadowutils ,i booted and now i cant login at a tty. however i can ssh to the machine. syslog give mingetty[499]: tty1: can't exec /bin/login: No such file or directory mingetty[521]: tty1: can't exec /bin/login: No such file or directory the PAM file is very basic pam.d/login looks like this: # /etc/pam.d/login # (This is a fairly minimal 'login' configuration) # auth requisite /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth requisite /lib/security/pam_nologin.so auth required /lib/security/pam_env.so auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 password required /lib/security/pam_unix.so use_authtok nullok obscure Is there any of regainin control? Kenneth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.