On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:30:23AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Ben, > > Out of despration, I tried the lines below instead of the ones you gave me. > > Lines you had me use: > auth required pam_unix_auth.so > account required pam_unix_acct.so > password required pam_unix_passwd.so > session required pam_unix_session.so > > Lines taken from the other.dpkg-dist > > > auth required pam_unix.so > > account required pam_unix.so > > password required pam_unix.so > > session required pam_unix.so > > I can now login under a virtual terminal so I am going to try rebooting to > see if that clears > the xserver. What does the difference between what you gave me and what > seems to work? Am I > missing some files?
I suggest reinstalling the libpam* packages. The pam_unix_*.so modules are only symlinks to pam_unix.so in the latest PAM packages. If that's not the case on your system, then you had a bad upgrade (and most likely you should reinstall _all_ of the PAM packages, not just the modules). Ben