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Subject: Re: only root allowed login ...
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:42:02 +0200
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Am Samstag, 11. Juni 2011 schrieb terry white:
> ... ciao:
> 
>      all of a sudden, i am only able to login as root.  this is not
> something i was trying to accomplish, and at a loss in figuring out
> how i did.  anyway.
> 
>      as a given, login as a valid user, with correct password, terminated
> immediately, with a new login prompt.  invalid login attempts iterate
> until a new session initiated.
> 
>      ftp, and smtp allowed, telnet fails.
> 
>      i'm not seeing anything mentioned in the logs with regard to failed
> normal user login.   i'm at a loss as to where i might start looking.
> 
>      any thoughts, suggestion would be much appreciated ...
hard disk full ?