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...
Poll ends at .
@mpjgregoire if you have anything important on it 2, otherwise 1.