Thanks for the tip. There were no pam.d/ files that had pam_tally and now pacnew files. I am digging through pam man pages to see if I can figure it out. Someone had to disable root access. I commented out pam_securetty.so in all the files but still no luck. Thanks. On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 5:04 PM SET via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Le vendredi 13 novembre 2020 17:06:08 CET Jack Frost via arch-general a écrit :
So I foo-bared my /home partition, no big deal, done it before, and I ...
Had a somehow similar problem yesterday.
After removing all lines with 'pam_tally' in /etc/pam.d/login via ssh (fortunately worked), I could login as root at console. This module is reportedly deprecated.
If there's a login.pacnew file, just replace the current login file with the pacnew one, unless you have custom settings in your login file.
Regards.