Nsswitch and Pam.d problem

[Jonathan Hartje]

sounds like either the /etc/passwd or the /etc/shaddow file has been 
corrupted. I'd replace both from a working machine to fix the root login 
problem.

Good luck,
Jonathan

B1smooth wrote:

> I changed my authentication scheme via authentication gui to include 
> LDAP and maybe SMB(can't remember). I rebooted Ydl and I was unable to 
> login as root or any users. I downloaded ext2 support for osx, mounted 
> my root partition and edited my nsswitch.conf file.  I removed all 
> instances of ldap and nis from the
> file to look like
>
> passwd: files
> group:   files
> shadow: files
>
> I even changed the public_key to files.
>  I still can't get into my YDL 3.0.1 distro. Do I need to edit 
> something in my pam.d folder? Anyone have any other suggestions...I 
> have full access to my root partition in 10.3.
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