[TAG] PAM auth failure - can't login in.

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:31:27AM -0700, Breen Mullins wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:02:06PM -0400, Radick, Don (IHG) wrote:
> > Since then, I can't login to my box as myself from a (boot up) command
> > shell.
> > I can login as root, and then su to my user either at a boot up shell
> > or within X just fine. Trying various combinations, I managed to 
> > see a "PAM Authentication " error when trying to start X as myself.
> 
> Sound familiar, Ben? 
 
[laugh] For sure. I just sent off an email mentioning it, and yours
popped up - standard TAG synchronicity, at your service.

> Ben wrote an article a couple of years ago about a very similar problem.
> 
> http://linuxgazette.net/issue52/okopnik.html
> 
> Excellent reading -- I press it on nearly everybody I try to show 
> troubleshooting techniques to. 

Thanks, Breen! That one, as well as the "Clearing the MBR" article, seem
to be evergreens; I keep getting a slow but constant stream of
complimentary emails on both. Always nice to come up with something that
helps so many people.


* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *