Here check out where the login process exists. find / -name login Then just copy login to /bin This should work Dharmendra.T Linux Security Expert www.nsecure.net This message is intended for the addressee only. It may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and destroy the message immediately. Unauthorised use or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited. On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Kabagambe Kenneth wrote: > > 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. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.