Date:  Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:26:54 -0400
From:  "Brian N. Smith" <brian (at mark) nuonce.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:06696] Re: E-mail broke afer massive updaes v3.5
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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> Yes. I had a client with an unknown version of BQ, where after 
> updating PAM
> was broken. Only admin/root logins were possible, but anything PAM 
> based was
> not.

Michael,

I had the same issue with a couple of my customers.  After trying what 
you had suggested, and failing, I finally tracked down the damn issue.

On a "broken" machine:

[root (at mark) box ~]# cat /etc/pwdb.conf
#
# This is the configuration file for the pwdb library
#

user:
        unix+shadow
        nis+unix+shadow

group:
        unix+shadow
        nis+unix+shadow

On a working machine:

[root (at mark) mail etc]# cat /etc/pwdb.conf
#
# This is the configuration file for the pwdb library
#

user:
        unix+shadow
        unixdb+shadowdb
        unix

group:
        unix+shadow
        unixdb+shadowdb
        unix

If anyone else has problems, check out the "pwdb.conf", also look at 
your /etc/nsswitch.conf

passwd:     db files
shadow:     db files
group:      db files

Make sure that "db" is there!

Good luck!
-Brian