Last week, I rebooted my #Debian #RPi4 server, and when it came back up, I could not longer log in, not via ssh, not with the console. The problem turned out to be that some of the files for PAM were corrupted.
Should I wipe the server and reinstall, or just fix the PAM files?
| Wipe it. | |
| Repair PAM and keep using. | |
| Other... |
@trevdev I haven't a clue. I don't think Debian Stable updated PAM recently, so I don't think I shut off the power while the files were being modified.
There were non-ASCII characters mixed in with the regular text of common-accounts, for instance.
@mpjgregoire Have you done a memory test?
Or a corrupt SD card, assuming you don’t do my insanity of booting it to iSCSI!
M. Grégoire
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Trev 
Edwin G. 
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