I recently moved my gentoo install from an old drive to a newer drive, and then into a new computer. I used rsync to copy the system over to the new drive. That all worked mostly no problem and the everything boots up and runs fine on the new computer.
But, xscreensaver cannot recognize my password. It just says incorrect (or permission denied?) and will not unlock. I had to switch to vt1, log in, and kill xscreensaver. Similar with "crontab -e" (as a regular user). It tells me I do not have permission: "You (chris) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration." In the logs, I get: "unix_chkpwd[4603]: could not obtain user info (chris)" I don't believe anything has changed in the configs. I didn't make any changes, and emerge hasn't recently mentioned anything needing etc-update. /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver is just: auth include system-auth /etc/pam.d/crond has more in it: auth include system-auth account required pam_access.so account include system-auth session required pam_loginuid.so session include system-auth This was all working fine yesterday before the switch. I used crontab -e to turn off a few things in my cron before starting the rsync. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks. -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools ESL Instructor Columbus State Community College MA TESOL Adjunct Ohio Dominican University
