Re: help, I hosed my PAM setup (I think)

[Jim Cromie <jcromie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Arindam Dey wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:15, Jim Cromie wrote:
>  
>
> > now Im unable to login with my regular username, or to su - to it
> >
> > [root@xxxxxxx pam.d]# su - jimc
> > Segmentation fault
> > [root@xxxxxxx pam.d]# su jimc
> > Segmentation fault
> > [root@xxxxxxx pam.d]#
> >
> > the segfault happens when su-ing from joe to bob,
> >
> > Also - on the X session still running there, where previously opened
> > 'joeuser' windows are present, the bash prompt changed to
> > "[I have no name!@xxxxxxx]",  and xterm title now shows 500, my userid
> > from  /etc/passwd (which is dated 4/13, so presumably un-mangled).
> >    
>
> chown 644 /etc/passwd should resolve your I have no name prompt to
> normal again. I think then you may find that most of your stuff is back
> to normal. Try this out.
>
>  
damn, youre good !

I chmod'd it (to match passwd-, BTW), new windows open with joe-user, su 
works.

thanks !

have you been there before ?   Any guess how passwd got 600'd ?   Part 
of the rpm -i --force ?


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