Pam has gone walkies - HELP!

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 12/17/05, Paul F. Johnson <Paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My system seems to have gone potty. I've fixed the initscript problen, but now
> seem to have lost libpam.so.0 which means that I can't log in!
>
> Is there anyway to abort during a boot up so that I am dropped to that insert
> root password login you see when fsck gets annoyed?

boot into single user mode   by adding the bootparameter 'single'
once booted  rpm -q pam   to see if pam is installed
then rpm -V pam   if it is installed

and it would be interesting to see the yum log associated with the yum
session when you did the pam update.

-jef