Re: [arch-general] shadow upgrade 4.1.5.1-1. /pam configuration files

2012-07-02 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> TY for help and hints, as PAM and shadow are both quite obscure to me > when it comes to configure. Needlessly too and it's not on it's own. Unix philosophy of write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that

Re: [arch-general] shadow upgrade 4.1.5.1-1. /pam configuration files

2012-07-02 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 07/02/2012 06:47 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: Leaving the old file in place should work. Also replacing it with the new one should work. I guess you did something in between? On Jul 2, 2012 5:27 PM, "Arno Gaboury" wrote: Dear list, I messed up my box yesterday when upgrading shadow, and trying

Re: [arch-general] shadow upgrade 4.1.5.1-1. /pam configuration files

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Gundersen
Leaving the old file in place should work. Also replacing it with the new one should work. I guess you did something in between? On Jul 2, 2012 5:27 PM, "Arno Gaboury" wrote: > Dear list, > > I messed up my box yesterday when upgrading shadow, and trying to > understand and merge /etc/pam.d/login

[arch-general] shadow upgrade 4.1.5.1-1. /pam configuration files

2012-07-02 Thread Arno Gaboury
Dear list, I messed up my box yesterday when upgrading shadow, and trying to understand and merge /etc/pam.d/login with login.pacnew. I thought it was worth adding the four lines of login.pacnew to my actual login file. But in this case, I found myself with a box login one user, me, on two T