PAM breakage

Tai-hwa Liang avatar at mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw
Sat May 14 00:25:16 PDT 2005


On Sat, 14 May 2005, Daniel Eriksson wrote:
>
> Somewhere between 2005.05.12.19.00.00 and 2005.05.13.18.10.00 PAM (or
> something PAM relies on) got messed up. Installing a system with the later
> date will prevent you from logging in, both via ssh and on the console.
> Using ssh results in the following console output:
>
> sshd[530]: fatal: openpty returns device for which ttyname fails.
> sshd[530]: error: chown  0 0 failed: No such file or directory
> sshd[530]: error: chmod  0666 failed: No such file or directory

   Does backing out ttyname related changes work for you?

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