Notes on eCryptfs PAM problem
June 5, 2010
I recently noticed that I can no longer create new users or change passwords on my laptop running Debian “squeeze”. I get an error message indicating that
authentication information cannot be recovered
After some digging around I realised that the problem is connected to
the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) system and some
changes I made earlier to its configuration in order to encrypt a
~/Private/ directory with eCryptfs. I had followed the
instructions in the Debian reference. It turns out that those
instructions are outdated, the problem was fixed by removing my
changes and running pam-auth-update where I just selected the
ecryptfs module.
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Notes on eCryptfs PAM problem, June 5
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