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From: Marshall Lake <mlake@mlake.net>
To: terry white <twhite@aniota.com>
Cc: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: only root allowed login ...
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:23:14 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1106110921380.3930@jr.mlake.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1106060412440.1404@aniota.com>


Possibly a permissions problem.  Check the permissions for the user's home 
directory.

Can you su into a user from the root login?




On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, 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 ...
>
> -- 
> ... it's not what you see ,
>    but in stead , notice ...
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-- 
Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://www.mlake.net

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-11 16:23 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 [this message]
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
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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