Re: etch: can no longer login (solved)

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:27:08 -0700
"David E. Fox" <dfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Something seems to be broken in etch (I know the caveats regarding
running etch vs. stable) but in the last day or so I've done an update
and upgrade and something seems to be broken relative to 'su' and
'sudo' - I'm getting errors of the form:

OK, after some futzing I managed to track it down to pilot error(s). I
was compiling some new software and as a result of that needed to
add /usr/local/lib to my /etc/ld.so.conf file. But I managed to have
leftover cruft in that directory - much of it several years old, and
pam managed to pick up those libraries rather than the default Debian
ones.

In this case, strace was a useful tool; I could see it attempt to open
and access the wrong libraries. But one would think that the user
libraries (/lib & /usr/lib) would be searched first, overriding any
other entries.

Live & learn anyway - sorry for spamming the list :(.

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