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In any case, thanks for reading all of this

That's the short version of the question.  The long version is...

I'm brand new (2 weeks and still going) Linux user.  My
educational project of the week is to try to construct a boot
disk recovery disk so if I*up next weeks project (compiling
tape support into the kernel) I might be able to recover.

I have installed Redhat 1.2, and am trying to use Yard (which is neat
utility by the way) to construct my first boot recovery disk.

I've gotten to the point where I can build and boot from a two
disk recovery set.  But I can't logon to the resulting system.  Any
attempt to do so starts complaining that /etc/pam.conf does not exist.
Including that file on the recover disk starts complaining about files
in /lib/security.  Now I've looked at all of these files, and tried
experimenting with seeing if I can logon to my main system when certain
files do or do not exist. It is obvious that this is some kind of
security system with encrypted databases stored on /lib/security.

The security of this system is substantially enhanced by virtue of
there not appearing to be any man pages it.  But I'm the sysadmin on
this system and I need to know what it is doing and how to use it.

For now I'll try putting the who set of files on my recovery disk.  But
would be really nice to find some documentation on just how I can use
(or not use) this particular feature.

Thanx for any help

-Ken Corbin

Dan Morrison ran into some problems using Yard with Redhat's pam and
security.  I put together a web page from his message.  It might save you
some time.

Good luck,
-Tom