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benji.ijneb

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Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 84

[SOLVED] Accidentally deleted /etc/pam.d! Help!

I really stupidly deleted the whole /etc/pam.d folder when removing an old install of pam-face-authentication, and now I can't log into the system in any way! am currently trying to restore the lost files from an ubuntu liveCD, but to no avail!

please help - is there any way of replacing the deleted files with new ones?

thanks

Last edited by benji.ijneb (2010-09-28 21:55:23)

sisco311

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From: Romania

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 112

Re: [SOLVED] Accidentally deleted /etc/pam.d! Help!

chroot into Arch and reinstall the packages which have files installed in /etc/pam.d:

pacman -S $(pacman -Ql | grep /etc/pam.d/$ | awk '{print $1}')

Last edited by sisco311 (2010-09-28 19:27:22)

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benji.ijneb

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Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 84

Re: [SOLVED] Accidentally deleted /etc/pam.d! Help!

thanks for your help

as it happens, this won't be necessary! one of the recovery apps that i was using worked, recovering all of the lost files! I was amazed...
thanks for all your help, though!