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#1 2012-03-09 19:46:29
- ebshankar
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[SOLVED]usermod: PAM: Authentication failure
I just installed bumblebee but when I tried to give permission to the user to use bumblebee daemon, it shows
$ usermod -a -G bumblebee ebs
usermod: PAM: Authentication failureHow can I fix this?
(The method given here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=675
didn't work)
Last edited by ebshankar (2012-03-10 04:08:30)
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#2 2012-03-09 19:57:37
- wonder
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Re: [SOLVED]usermod: PAM: Authentication failure
do it as root not as regular user.
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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#3 2012-03-10 04:08:06
- ebshankar
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Re: [SOLVED]usermod: PAM: Authentication failure
wonder wrote:
do it as root not as regular user.
ok that worked!
When I used the command it asked me for password so I assumed it is asking for root access automatically.
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