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What is the most difficult problem that you have fixed in linux? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

while playing around with face/fingerprint unlock for my laptop, I messed up pam (Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules) and no passwords were working anymore except for the root account. At first I was still on my account, but then I stupidly rebooted and could only log in as root. After so many config edits, I gave up and instead booted up windows (my laptop's dual booted), setting up a new linux install in VirtualBox, and then copying over the PAM config files from the vm to the actual Linux install.

and it all somehow worked!

I am now facing another issue which I'm gonna say here in the hope somebody has already ran into it: after updating to KDE plasma 6, tap to click works on my touchpad, but actually, physically, pressing on the trackpad doesn't work. I can hear the pad's physical clicking noise, but nothing happens os wise

this one's still to be resolved

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nice I recently borked PAM on my headless fedora server host while attempting to set ssh to require 2fa using Google Authenticator. I still haven't gotten that process figured out - I follow the instructions but each time it won't accept any 2fa otps from my Google authenticator app