On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 21:21:43 +0200, Torsten A. wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm having trouble to login to my Debian Lenny, indepent whether I wan't to > login using gdm or plain at the console. Another is that I don't know much > about Linux, I am still trying to get along with it. > > The problem is that when the dialog appears to enter the username I do so, > the computer does some action for a short period, as if it would check the > password, and I get the dialoge "Legitmation failed" without being able to > actually enter a password! After that I am prompted to enter a username > again. All I can do to enter the system is to login in single user mode. > > The problem occured having installed thinkfinger on my T61. I think I > managed to get rid of anything that was installed by tf, though I'm not > sure. > > I alredy looked through the /etc/pam.d/ files and wasn't able to find > anything converning thinkfinger. I already changed back the common-auth, > which was altered by thinkfinger. > > So at this point, I am not even sure if the problem is accounted by > thinkfinger. Can you think of anything else that might be broken so I cannot > login to my system, because I am not asked for a password.
You could try a brute-force check of all packages that are supposed to have files in /etc/pam.d/ on your system: dpkg -S etc/pam.d/ | cut -d\: -f1 | sort -u | while read PKG; do debsums -a $PKG; done | grep -v OK$ This should show you all the files that have been changed from their default; maybe that will help to narrow down your search. If that does not lead anywhere then I would have a closer look at the thinkfinger installation and removal scripts to figure out what they might have done to disable passwords. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
