From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 21: 7:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5F137B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.san.rr.com (smtp1.san.rr.com [24.25.195.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1013043E6E for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from 24-161-161-120.san.rr.com (24-161-161-120.san.rr.com [24.161.161.120]) by smtp1.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g7R47hi04465 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 21:07:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@dhcp-402-55.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: login loathing (pam.conf) Message-ID: <20020826210118.E506-100000@dhcp-402-55.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it possible to "reinstall" login (typing `which login` tells me it is a [tcsh] shell built-in)? Somehow login has become ensnared by this "pam" atrocity for which I have no use. I would prefer to untangle to two. For example, when I go to login on ttyv1 while already as root on ttyv0, I see the following: Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: _pam_init_handlers: could not open /etc/pam.conf Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: _pam_init_handlers: could not open /etc/pam.conf Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: _pam_init_handlers: could not open /etc/pam.conf Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: pam_start: failed to initialize handlers Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: pam_start: failed to initialize handlers Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: pam_start: failed to initialize handlers Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: pam_start: Critical error - immediate abort Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: pam_start: Critical error - immediate abort Aug 26 21:00:49 <4.3> dhcp-402-55 login: pam_start: Critical error - immediate abort Aug 26 21:00:54 <4.5> dhcp-402-55 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1 Aug 26 21:00:54 <4.5> dhcp-402-55 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1 I realize the errors in triplicate is due to some setting(s) in my /etc/syslogd.conf, but is there a way to "unlink" login and pam? Thanks, just the spam, hold the pam, :-) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message