On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Andre Luiz Mendes Matos wrote: > Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:41:52 -0200 > From: Andre Luiz Mendes Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Login problem in RedHat 6.2 > > Hello, > > When I try to login Linux RedHat 6.2, I receive again the message to > type the login name. In other words, the Linux did not accept my user > name. > > I tried to start the Linux as a Linux single user and than chage the > root password and my user password, but when I started the S.O., again > the same problem hapens. If I inicialize the Linux as inittab 5 (X11), > the linux accept my user and password, and the root user and password. > It's a second time that's happining in my computer. Is somebody knows > what is happinning? > > Andre Matos > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My guess would be to look for possible corruption of the /etc/inittab file itself, and perhaps even the 'login' binary. I believe when you log in from runlevel 5 the authentication is carried out by gdm/kdm/xdm and not login. $ls -l /bin/login -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20452 Mar 7 2000 /bin/login $rpm -qf /bin/login util-linux-2.10f-7 $rpm -V util-linux S.5....T c /etc/pam.d/login ..?..... /usr/bin/chfn ..?..... /usr/bin/chsh ..?..... /usr/bin/newgrp -- ------------------------------------------------------ Nitebirdz ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.linuxnovice.org News, tips, articles, links...
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