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From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/29592: No idea how to turn off PAM
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:40:27 -0500

 On Mar 4, 10:47am, martin@duskware.de (Martin Husemann) wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/29592: No idea how to turn off PAM
 
 | PAM fails for me, e.g. I can't su any more. The joys of running -current.
 | No problem, I could drive to the machine, find a monitor, log in on the
 | console and turn off pam - if only I had an idea how to do that.
 | 
 | pam(8) does not tell me. It refers me to a non-existant pam.conf(5), but
 | that probably would not help me either, since I don't have /etc/pam.conf
 | at all.
 
 There is a README in /usr/src/etc/pam.d that will become a manual page.
 The config files are in /etc/pam.d. If you turn on debug on syslog, you'll
 see a lot of PAM messages which will help you debug the problem.
 
 christos