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Hi, Make sure you've restored the /etc/shadow file. Failing that you may have to reset passwords as Neil suggests Jon On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 19:19, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > It's been a long few weeks! > > You might remember a little while back I posted > several messages trying to figure out what the hell > was up with my web server. With your help, I > correctly identified it as hard disk corruption and we > managed to back up the whole drive just in time - the > drive gave up the ghost shortly afterwards! > > Anyway, the hard disk has been replaced and my RaQ > reloaded. Great, just restore the backups and my > server will be exactly how it was before. Except that > "as before" means corrupted and generally broken! > > So I'm trying to just restore the config files as > necessary, not the binaries. I started by restoring > everything in /etc, that seemed like a good place to > start. Is there anything else I should restore? > (apart from /home) > > My current problem concerns authentication. My > services on my server (including email) seem to use > PAM for authentication. When I try to check my emails > (via POP/qpopper), for instance, it says: > > "-ERR [AUTH] PAM authentication failed for user "ray": > Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication > info. (9)" > > The entries in /etc/passwd currently look a bit like > this: > > "ray:x:191:100:Raymond:/home/sites/site19/users/ray:/bin/badsh" > > I understand that the "x" represents the password, as > it is then looked up in /etc/shadow. Except that the > entries in /etc/shadow don't seem to have a password > either! > > "ray:x:12201:0:99999:7:::" > > I reset the password for my own user, "netacclaim", > and could consequently log in without problems. > > Any idea how I can restore my user's passwords? > > Cheers, > > Jon > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.