From: Gene <gene.baxter@gmail.com>
To: Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@gmail.com>
Cc: Srinivasa T N <seenutn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: only root allowed login ...
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:27:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF61E3F.7080601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=xLCD=MFhT_oiRrW34zqQNWuUc2g@mail.gmail.com>
Depending upon how your system is set up, the issue could have something
to do with your /home partition, either full, or not mounting. When you
are logged in as root can you get into your /home directory fine?
On 06/12/2011 09:57 PM, Ben Kevan wrote:
> Or /var/log/secure depending on your distro.
>
> What login method are you utiizing?
>
>
>
> On 6/12/11, Srinivasa T N<seenutn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-13 14:27 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
2011-06-13 4:57 ` Ben Kevan
2011-06-13 14:27 ` Gene [this message]
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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