From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Tader Subject: Re: only root allowed login ... Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:33:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4DF65810.8000305@linuxscope.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" To: terry white Cc: linux-admin On 06/13/2011 01:01 PM, terry white wrote: > ... ciao: > > : on "6-12-2011" "Billy Crook" writ: > : Computers are deterministic machines. Nothing happens 'all of > : the sudden'. > > "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." > > perhaps, in context, 'all of a sudden' makes more sense. CLEARLY, my > problem is the direct result of something i did. not to make too fine a > point of it, it is possible to make a configuration change, and have the > results of that change, show up much later. its appearance seems > 'sudden' and the 'root' cause, may not be immediately obvious. > > i would even hazard the observation that a cron event, 'sudden'. > > > : See if setting a user's shell to something else (csh, ksh, zsh, ash) > : makes a difference. > > changed to 'csh' with same result. > > > : And I hope to got you're using TLS on smtp. > > i am at a complete loss in understanding 'how' TLS relevant. > > > : Which logs have you checked so far? > > syslog*, kernel*, messages*, wtmp*, btmp, secure* ... > > Are there entries in /etc/shadow for these users?