Today's PAM update broke my login, will not accept my password. HELP!

[iponeverything]

I found the pam update in question and it was in response to this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...am/+bug/295441

the new package spawned this bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...am/+bug/364665

see if you can copy your /etc/pam.d/login file to thumbdrive as login.txt and upload it as attachment.

also does running:

/usr/sbin/pam-auth-update

generate the same errors reported in second of the above bug reports?

[benniboi]

Running /usr/sbin/pam-auth-update as root didn't produce any errors, only when I tried running it as my domain account user which I can still log in with.

Attached are the two files you asked for, plus this morning's lines from auth.log

Interestingly, I removed the x in between the two colons in the root entry in etc/passwd and re-ran the pwconv utility and now when I go to recovery mode it no longer asks me for the password for root, just says press enter to continue and enter shell.

[iponeverything]

Your auth.log seems to be pointing to gnome-keyring-daemon or dbus as the guilty party. Found the below thread with google.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6450387

You could try a roll back on the gnome-keyring-daemon stuff.

Whatever the bug is that you have found, it seems to be obscure.

[benniboi]

hmmm looks like there's no fix for it as yet...

Interestingly, when I run passwd -u command it says password changed. I don't know what that's about or whether it really is changing the password. Ran that originally to make sure the account wasn't locked.

it's looking more and more like a reinstall... not looking forward to it, took ages to get all the little features of macbook air going just right...

[iponeverything]

your pam.d/passwd file is identical to mine

your pam.d/login file contains one extra module:

session sufficient /lib/security/pam_lsass.so

[benniboi]

Should I remove it?

[iponeverything]

Maybe try what this guy did:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ba/+bug/292791

[iponeverything]

Should I remove it?

you can comment it out to see if it helps.

[benniboi]

Hmmm... I did that and was able to change the root and my login password. However the gnome login will still not accept the new password.

[benniboi]

In the end had to revert the changes as the gnome wouldn't even take my domain login anymore. Once reverted I can at least use the domain login.