Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joseph Spenner wrote: >> I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. >> I can only login as root. > How does your /etc/nsswitch.conf look? Particularly the 'passwd:' line? Thanks very much. I see that in /etc/nsswitch.conf I have #passwd:db files nispl

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: Timothy Murphy To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 5:47 AM Subject: [CentOS] Can only login as root > I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. > I can only login as root. > If I try to login with one of the user'

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Craig White
On May 3, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. > I can only login as root. > If I try to login with one of the user's names, > it hangs for a long time. > I thought it hung forever, but I just found that > I do login after "su tim" after 5 mi

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:25:02AM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:47 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. > > I can only login as root. > > If I try to login with one of the user's names, > > it hangs for a long time. > >

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:47 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. > I can only login as root. > If I try to login with one of the user's names, > it hangs for a long time. > I thought it hung forever, but I just found that > I do login after "su tim" aft

[CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. I can only login as root. If I try to login with one of the user's names, it hangs for a long time. I thought it hung forever, but I just found that I do login after "su tim" after 5 minutes. It seems that the problem lies in repeated messages in /