Ubuntu
pam package

  1. Bug #259867
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 259867

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russofris (russofris) wrote : Re: intrepid latest update authentication failed

I tried booting from the liveCD and chrooting into the system on disk. That worked. Then I tried to change the password of my user and rebooting. No dice.

We're going to have to find the pam packages that were upgraded, and revert them.

Unfortunately, I have little knowledge of apt/dpkg.

Basically....

boot from live cd
open terminal
sudo su - root
mkdir /mnt/chroot
mount /dev/XXX /mnt/chroot (where XXX is your linux partition)
chroot /mnt/chroot /bin/bash
apt-get --something-here-to-revert-pam

If you can figure out the last step, props to you. Welcome to the world of Alpha releases.

Frank