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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>]

Why didn't you simply remove corresponding module from /etc/pam.d/login 
file?

ari.steinberg AT stanford.edu wrote:

> First, Linux-PAM gave me a few problems, causing me to eventually give
> up on it and to dispel it.  Specifically, every time I logged in after
> casting it, I got a message saying something to the effect of "couldn't
> find /etc/securetty".  It still logged in fine, but gave a few other
> messages which unfortunately I did not save.  I did choose to recast all
> pam-aware spells (which was just shadow) after casting Linux-PAM.  I
> checked and indeed the file /etc/securetty did not exist.
>
> I tried creating this file with "touch /etc/securetty", but then I could
> no longer log in - even root was supposedly not a valid login.  Next I
> searched online and found a few old messages on this list mentioning
> this problem, as well as some information about pam on LinuxFromScratch.
> Their page suggested that the file /etc/securetty be created with 6 lines:
> tty1
> tty2
> ...
> tty6
> which I did, but this still did not work, so I had to delete the file. 
> I tried dispelling and recasting both pam and shadow numerous times, but
> was unable to get it to work, so I finally gave up on pam.  Any ideas
> what the problem could have been?
>
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