On Thu, 24 May 2001, satya kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
> This is the ninth consecutive week I have been working on trying
> to prepare 'linux on a floppy' and now, as I have already written
> previously,I have this problem.As soon as I enter the username as root
> and press enter the password prompt comes(previously this was also not
> coming,but after I added /dev/tty it appeared)and after I enter the
> password as in my /etc/passwd file and press enter this error is
> flashed login[45]: invalid password for 'UNKNOWN' on tty1 and then
> comes 'login incorrect'.Please tell me what could be the possibilities
> of this error.I was initially using /bin/login but it was giving
> problem thats why I am now using 'tinylogin' which is a utility
> available on Lineo.com and can be used instead of login. Please try to
> help me out, otherwise I will go mad with it.I am just stuck.I am
> using redhat 6.2 .Tell me all the possibilities of this error even the
> silliest ones.Thanks in advance.
Download the source code to tinylogin, read it (and possibly modifiy it to
give you more debugging information), and save yourself.
--Jeremy
Jeremy Impson
Sr. Associate Network Engineer
Advanced Technologies Department
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 607-751-5618
fax: 607-751-6025
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