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After a recent update in Arch Linux, which required updating /etc/passwd
, /etc/shadow
, and /etc/pam.d/login
, I have started being prompted for my login password twice at boot up. I boot to runlevel 3, login, and start my window manager manually with startx
. The prompt I'm talking about is in the basic shell.
I enter my username, then am prompted for my password, which I enter. Then an identical password prompt appears. I enter my password again, and am successfully logged in.
Any suggestions troubleshooting this?
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This was, indeed, the problem. I cross-posted here and in the Arch forums; another explanation can be found there. An Arch update removed some items in
– Hendy – 2012-09-16T20:09:26.143/etc/pam.d/login
and put them in/etc/pam.d/system-login
which was called by/etc/pam.d/system-local-login
. Since I incorrectly merged my existinglogin
with the update pushed by Arch,pam_unix.so
was indeed being called twice, hence two login prompts.