Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Hi all, > > and a happy nerw year! > > My problem with PAM has several manifestations: > 1/ I cannot login as root (I know I should not do that btw): > "Login incorrect" (but I know my root password!) > 2/ Using sudo su as a user: > > 12:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/jean % sudo su > Password: > su : Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. > (Ignoré) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jean]# > > 3/ So I can do *some* admin jobs, but *not all;* specifically I cannot create > a > new user: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jean]# useradd jojo > useradd : échec de la méthode d'authentification PAM > > (ie, the pam auth method fails) > > I guess it is the same problem causing these behaviours, but am far from > being an expert on that, so any help will be welcome! > TIA >
As I see it, you have to: - boot from a CD - mount your gentoo - chroot into it - change root password by "passwd" - reinstall pam by "emerge -1 sys-libs/pam" Note that the last step requires a working connection to The Internet. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
