From: Srinivasa T N <seenutn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: only root allowed login ...
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:54:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF590F1.80809@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1106060412440.1404@aniota.com>
On 06/11/2011 07:16 PM, terry white wrote:
> ... 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 ...
>
/var/log/message is your friend.
Regards,
Seenu.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-13 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-11 13:46 only root allowed login terry white
2011-06-11 16:23 ` Marshall Lake
2011-06-13 18:29 ` terry white
2011-06-13 20:13 ` Marshall Lake
2011-06-11 16:42 ` Markus Koßmann
2011-06-12 0:07 ` Gerardo Juarez-Mondragon
2011-06-12 13:56 ` Herta Van den Eynde
2011-06-12 14:02 ` Billy Crook
2011-06-13 18:01 ` terry white
2011-06-13 18:09 ` Jean-Francois Gobin
2011-06-13 18:33 ` Paul Tader
2011-06-13 4:24 ` Srinivasa T N [this message]
2011-06-13 4:57 ` Ben Kevan
2011-06-13 14:27 ` Gene
2011-06-14 6:44 ` Glynn Clements
2011-06-20 9:03 ` terry white
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-20 8:37 terry white
2011-06-20 8:44 ` Srinivasa T N
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