Re: login problem [half OT]

2012-10-04 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 4, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Glenn English wrote: > squeese > > Can anyone shine a little light this way?? Like, am I right that there's a > password problem, and what can I do about it? Hate to reply to my own whinage, but it's fixed. It was a misconfigure in SSH. -- Glenn English -- To

Re: Login-Problem

2009-05-29 Thread Bob McGowan
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 09:47 +0200, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > On 05/28/2009 08:38 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:59 +0200, K. Jantzen wrote: > > > > > Changing the login screen I must have changed something that now prevents > > > a "normal" login (with the possibility to login

Re: Login-Problem

2009-05-28 Thread Bob McGowan
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:59 +0200, K. Jantzen wrote: > Changing the login screen I must have changed something that now prevents > a "normal" login (with the possibility to login as user or as admin). > Instead of the login screen I get a screen saying: > "Please wait: Scanning local network" > >

Re: Login problem at debian lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-13, Mahmudur Rahman Jami wrote: > --000e0cd331dcd3fd6c04676d5094 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > I am using Debian lenny. I am unable to login to my system since today > morning. It shows the following message when I put user

Re: login problem (password corruption? pam?)

2008-07-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Joseph Neal wrote: Hello all. Logins keep going bad on me. Repeatedly. I first noticed the problem yesterday after updating sid. First sudo failed to accept my password. I logged out of KDE and was not able to log back in. Let's call my normal login that I've been using the past couple

Re: Re: Login problem

2006-07-21 Thread Y.BulentAVCI
Thanks for reply Pol, My system is opening without executing those files and I am looking for why? It is like that there is a nologin specification somewhere in configuration files. But I couldnt find it. Here is my passwd entry avci:x:1002:1002::/home/avci:/bin/bash "~/.bash_profile" was executed

Re: Login problem

2006-07-21 Thread Pol Hallen
> None of startup script files(~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile) are > executed at login. > After login I am calling 'bash --login' in a terminal then they are > executed but that doesnt affect desktop environment. > I searched for a configuration like 'nologin' for my linux user but > found nothing.

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Libin Varghese
Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:26:25PM +0530, Libin Varghese wrote: Joseph Haig wrote: How did you change your username? used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to abc Could you tell us which program/GUI that was? Or at least, how you found it

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:26:25PM +0530, Libin Varghese wrote: > Joseph Haig wrote: > > >How did you change your username? > > > I used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to > abc Could you tell us which program/GUI that was? Or at least, how you found it (which things did

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Libin Varghese wrote: Hi, On my system I had 2 user root and xyz, while i was logged on as xyz on my gnome i changed my username to abc and logged on again. It gives me the following message. Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself this coul

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
1. login as root Type the following in the terminal: 2. groupadd anygroup 3. useradd -g anygroup -d /home/anyuser anyuser 4. passwd anyuser # "anyuser123" 5. mkdir -p /home/anyuser 6. chown -R anyuser /home/anyuser 7. chgrp -R anygroup /home/anyuser 8. logout 9. login as anyuser Cheers, Yuriy

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Rafal Czlonka
> I used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to abc Since I don't know what kind of gui it was, please send the output of: # ls -la /home/abc # cat /etc/passwd|grep abc # cat /etc/group -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Libin Varghese
Joseph Haig wrote: How did you change your username? I used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to abc My first guess is that when you log in as abc it is looking for a home directory /home/abc and, not being able to find it, ends the session immediately. Gnome (or ma

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Libin Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > On my system I had 2 user root and xyz, while i was logged on as > xyz > on my gnome i changed my username to abc and logged on again. It > gives > me the following message. > > > Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If yo

Re: Login problem

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:15PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > No, they can be buffered on the terminal. Try typing at 'sleep 5; cat > > > hm - right, but login plays a lot with the terminal (it has to disable > echo for instance), so maybe it flushes the buffer before to read the > passwor

Re: Login problem

2002-01-16 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> > any recompiling or upgrading will be useless - you just can't send > > keystrokes to a program that didn't started yet! > > No, they can be buffered on the terminal. Try typing at 'sleep 5; cat >

Re: Login problem

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:02:27PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I downloaded the source so that I could see if I could do anything > > about it, but gzip is complaining that it isn't in gzip format. Is > > there any special package I need to get to be able to decompre

Re: Login problem

2002-01-16 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I have a problem that seems like login is working too slowly for my > computer, or my computer is too slow for login (a little more likely). > Occasionally I get results similar to the results for this fictional user. > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 icosagon tty2 >

Re: Login problem

2002-01-16 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Seneca Cunningham: > Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm probably missing something here... but can't you just wait for the > > password prompt? > > I could, but I don't want to always check my timing. Normally I just type at > full speed like foo did, and the password p

Re: Login problem

2002-01-15 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm probably missing something here... but can't you just wait for the > password prompt? I could, but I don't want to always check my timing. Normally I just type at full speed like foo did, and the password prompt comes up before the password gets in

Re: login problem! (SOLVED)

2001-05-24 Thread J . Ramón Fdez
I haven' t a symlink to /etc/init.d/rmnologin. Now all it's OK Many thanks El Jue 24 May 2001 18:53, J. Ramón Fdez escribió: > Hi all, > When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say: > > login: jramon > Sytem bootup in progress - please wait > > Password: *** > Login incorre

Re: login problem!

2001-05-24 Thread Rich Puhek
Log in as root. Look to see if you have a /etc/nologin file or an /etc/nologin.boot file. If you're seeing the "Sytem bootup in progress - please wait" message, that means that the nologin files are there, and only root is allowed to login. If those files are there, something went kinda wrong wit

Re: login problem!

2001-05-24 Thread Kevin Ross
This is happening because login won't allow non-root logins while the system is booting up. It thinks the system is booting up because of the existance of the file /etc/nologin. This file is removed automatically when entering multi-user mode. Two things to check: 1. What is your default run

RE: login problem!

2001-05-24 Thread Edwin Lau
Hi Try type your password in the login prompt to see if it is really those characters. Sometimes keyboard misconfiguration causes the different character is displayed when a key is pressed. If that is the case, try kdbconfig as root to change that Edwin Lau -Original Message- From: J. Ra

Re: login problem!

2001-05-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Sounds like you were running nis (yppasswd) at one time, but now are not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Ramón Fdez) writes: > Hi all, > When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say: > > login: jramon > Sytem bootup in progress - please wait > > Password: *** > Login incorrect >