On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Mikol Graves wrote: > Yesterday I did what has become a pretty standard dselect update and > install. But something went very wrong with yesterday's upgrade. I can > no longer log into my workstation as root, myself or any other user > remotely or at the local console. In fact, at the local console the > login fails without asking for a password. > > I'm pretty sure that I should be able to reboot and do something like: > > linux init=/bin/sh > > or: > > linux single > > to get root access again, but I would still be at a loss as to how I > could correct the lockout problem.
'linux single' worked fine for me. For some reason the PAM problem doesn't affect it. I just installed the updated debs from incoming.debian.org and I can login again. -- Steve Haavik Sailor Operations Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 410-396-5551 Cell: 443-829-1532 Pager: 443-829-1532 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
