From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Srinivasa T N Subject: Re: only root allowed login ... Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:54:17 +0530 Message-ID: <4DF590F1.80809@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin 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.