Barius Drubeck wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 05:49, Marty _ wrote: > >> dont suppose anyone knows the general needed commands/utils for a >> successful login? >> i.e. i have '(hostname) login:' >> i type root >> waits 20-30 seconds >> and repeats. >> >> sulogin works inside the bootscripts. >> shadow has been installed. (and running, inside bootscripts to make >> certain) All the drives have been set up, fstab is fine, devices >> load successfully. >> >> Any ideas? >> > > I vaguely remember seeing something similar when experimenting with a > minimal chroot. IIRC the problem was that login couldn't locate the > shell (Bash) but I don't remember the exact mechanism. > > > Another possibility is that /etc/login.defs is missing or mis-configured.
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