On August 8, 2012 04:22:28 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:24:17 +0000 > > Marcello Varisco <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > By incident I removed the pam.d directory containing all pam modules > > from command line. Is there a way to recover the removed directory? > > any help is appreciated since I can't login to my computer without > > live cd anymore. > > Unless you have some amazing recovery tools to had (most people don't) > you can't easily recover those files. > > pam.d isn't put there by a single package, everything that uses pam is > liable to write it's own custom file there. You can regain your ability > to log in by remerging these packages: > > sys-apps/shadow > sys-auth/pambase > > To do that, you will need to boot off a livecd and chroot. Then a > reboot should see you fine. Then you could rememrge everything that has > pam in USE and hope this is enough. > > Or, you could restore from backups. You *do* have backups of /etc, > right?
Also, qcheck from portage-utils can list out all packages that are missing files from /etc/pam.d, so you can know which packages need remerging. Run "qcheck --all" and look for "AFK: /etc/pam.d/....." in the output. HTH, Bryan
