On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:20:59PM +1000, Langdon Green wrote:
> I am trying to create a boot disk from my debian 2.2r2 machine. I have a rootfs
>with all the basic binaries req, and another disk to boot from.
>
> It boots, Ok and loads the rootfs ok, Login prompt OK, When I type username and
>password, it comes up with pam errors (ie can't find username and password). I
>checked out the pam site and I believe that the problem is with the file
>/mnt/var/run/utmp (which i tried touch, cp dd to copy the file to the rootfs).
>Anyway, I have downloaded the source cd's for debian, and I was thinking of
>recompiling the login binary without pam. Where would I find the source for login
>(can't find it on the cd's) and is it possible to recompile without pam?
>
> Can anyone think of anything else that I can do?
Sounds to me like you did not copy the /lib/security/ modules. You
atleast need to copy pam_unix.so, and make sure you copied
/etc/pam.d/login (and removed all lines that do not pertain to
pam_unix.so).
Or, you can just download the shadow source and recompile without PAM
support.
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