Date:  Sat, 9 Sep 2006 01:32:53 +0900
From:  Hisao SHIBUYA <shibuya (at mark) alpha.or.jp>
Subject:  [coba-e:06790] Re: Yum Update broke my system.  need help
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <4880077B-E36C-45EC-AA3E-C29B2685DCD0 (at mark) alpha.or.jp>
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I will make new pam packages with specific release number
as 166.17BQ7.
It release number almost newer than CentOS update package
in the future.

Now, I prepare to release pam package and I will release
as soon.

Hisao


On 2006/09/06, at 13:44, Brian N. Smith wrote:

>> I did a YUM update just now and after rebooting my system is no  
>> longer authenticating users. Apache wont start etc...
>
> Do this line by line, and you should be fine.
>
> rpm -e --nodeps pam
> cd /etc/yum.repos.d
> rm -f CentOS-Base.repo
> wget http://www.nuonce.net/bq/CentOS-Base.repo
> yum install pam
>
> Now, look at the following files;
>
> 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 it doesn't look like that, make it look like that.  Then look at  
> this file
>
> cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> Look for these three lines:
>
> passwd:     db files
> shadow:     db files
> group:      db files
>
> If they do not have "db" before the "files", add them.
>
> Once you do that, Pam will function just fine then!
>
> Thanks,
> Brian N. Smith
> NuOnce Networks, Inc.