unable to telnet (error: check pam.conf)

[Jagadesh]

Dear All,

Iam using HP-UX11.0. when i try to telnet as root iam getting an error (check pam.conf).
i rebooted the machine now iam not able to login in the machine itself.

Kindly help me out.

Regards
S.Jagadesh

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Have you tried booting to single user mode or even LVM maintenance mode? Or checked logging on as root on the console?

If one of those works, replace the /etc/pam.conf with a previous version or even with a default one.

[Jagadesh]

after logging in to hpux through single user mode, i tried
#passwd root
but iam getting an error like
"Shared object load failure"
check /etc/pam.conf

[Roberto Polli]

maybe you have a strange pam config?

Post here your pam.conf : the authentication steps are listed there...

And find out a pam manual.

Peace, R.

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

Boot into single user mode. Do mountall.
Compare ll /etc/pam.conf with /usr/newconfig/etc/pam.conf.

Rename /etc/pam.conf to something and copy /usr/newconfig/etc/pam.conf to /etc/pam.conf and boot

Post the results.

Anil

[Onong Tayeng]

The error is probably because the /etc/pam.conf file is either not present on the machine or the permissions are incorrect.

After the reboot are you able to ping the machine?