Re: [gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc.

[Florian Philipp]

Jayson Smith schrieb:

Hi,

    I'm running Gentoo. As part of an unrelated package upgrade, PAM got
upgraded. Ever since, or sometime afterward, anything requiring a username
and password fails. My POP3 server fails, I can't even log in as root! If I

password, but instead waits three seconds or whatever, and tells me the
login is incorrect. Thank Goodness, I do have exactly one console window
logged in as Root, so I'm not totally locked out. I had upgraded PAM in the
recent past. Could it be that I need a reboot? Only reason I don't do this
is...

try to log in at the console, it takes the username, which can be a real or a non-existent user, and doesn't ask for a

Maybe you need to update a configuration file. Did you run dispatch-conf or etc-update after the emerge? I'd advice against using etc-update and would use dispatch-conf, by the way. They both come with portage.

    My ISP blocks port 25, so I have to manually run a redirector program
to forward another port to port 25 on my Linux system. I don't know how to
get this to run automatically at startup, easily. And wouldn't you know it,
I have a Mailman list going which I really don't need to have down, as it's

pretty important. So, if I reboot and am still locked out, then I'm screwed.

You can put custom bash-scripts into /etc/local.start . They will execute after the last "normal" init-script.

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