pam horked on a linux vm

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Post #383,107 by boxley 11/3/13 1:21:37 PM Reply	pam horked on a linux vm using vmware esx to create a vm. Was doing some security lockdowns to remove nullok entries from pamd.conf. Another admin rebooted the system now sudo fails without asking for a password. At the console login, any user fails without a passwd prompt. So no root login. su - fails immediately without a password prompt. Is there a way using vsphere client to mount the root partition and edit the files? Am I looking at a rebuild? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #383,108 by folkert 11/3/13 1:27:18 PM Reply	Yep... boot from an ISO and rescue. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #383,109 by boxley 11/3/13 1:35:15 PM Reply	Greg, I know that but do not know how to do that from vsphere client 5.0 which is the only access I have Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #383,110 by crazy 11/3/13 2:01:41 PM Reply	Dunno if helps but In my VMWare days I was able to use the admin client to upload an ISO to the server. At that point I'd upload knoppix. Then I'd tell the admin client to use the knoppix iso to boot the vmware environment, and at that point knoppix easily mounted the linux vmware disk partition and hacked out the root password.
Post #383,111 by boxley 11/3/13 2:06:48 PM Reply	thx Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #383,115 by folkert 11/3/13 5:08:34 PM Reply	Evidently... I thought perhaps you had a working knowledge of doing things. Sorry to assume you knew the extent of the software. Next time I'll know. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #383,118 by boxley 11/3/13 5:34:25 PM Reply	kvm xen no problem, the windows interface gui that vmsphere uses is not intuitive. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #383,112 by Another Scott 11/3/13 4:03:38 PM Reply	Wow. Ouch. I hope it's easy to fix. Good luck.
Post #383,150 by boxley 11/4/13 11:11:57 AM Reply	fixed, an admin had root turns out an rpm update added a fingerprint reader requirement to pam Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep

pam horked on a linux vm - (boxley) - (8) - Nov. 3, 2013, 01:21:37 PM EST

Yep... boot from an ISO and rescue. -NT - (folkert) - (5) - Nov. 3, 2013, 01:27:18 PM EST

Greg, I know that - (boxley) - (4) - Nov. 3, 2013, 01:35:15 PM EST

Dunno if helps but - (crazy) - (1) - Nov. 3, 2013, 02:01:41 PM EST

thx -NT - (boxley) - Nov. 3, 2013, 02:06:48 PM EST

Evidently... - (folkert) - (1) - Nov. 3, 2013, 05:08:34 PM EST

kvm xen no problem, the windows interface gui - (boxley) - Nov. 3, 2013, 05:34:25 PM EST

Wow. Ouch. I hope it's easy to fix. Good luck. -NT - (Another Scott) - Nov. 3, 2013, 04:03:38 PM EST

fixed, an admin had root - (boxley) - Nov. 4, 2013, 11:11:57 AM EST

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