[wplug] Login incorrect before entering password

[Benjamin Slavin]

John,

My thanks to you, sir. The problem was the /etc/pam.d/login file. Simply
re-emerging pam, pam-login, and shadow didn't fix it, but deleting the
file, as you suggested, then emerging those packages did.

Thanks again.

  --Ben



On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 17:03, john at simplykiwi.com wrote:
> You may want to check out the Bug report filed here:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29563
>  
> I had the same problem recently, as a result of trying emerge -u world. The 
> problem is with the "shadow" package. I was able to fix the problem by 
> deleting /etc/pam.d/login, then re-emerging shadow, and pam-login. This 
> recreated the files in question. The bug report documents further. Good 
> luck!