Re: I installed RH 7.2 and now I can't login as myself or root

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:57:20AM -0500, Pete Peterson wrote:
> 
> I installed RH 7.2, as I've done many times before.  It was a fresh install
> on new partitions.  Everything seemed normal, except for a LONG delay at
> the "postinstall" screen (mentioned this in previous message a few 
> minutes ago).
> 
> During the install, I decided to enable NIS, which I haven't done before at
> this site.  I selected NIS, shadow passwords, no md5 passwords.  I
> specified our Solaris NIS server as the NIS server and specified the NIS
> domain.  I set the root password and created an account on the RH machine
> that didn't conflict with any NIS account name.
> 
> When I rebooted, I couldn't login as myself or as root.  I then did
> a single-user login from grub, did a pwunconv and just out of superstition,
> I redid the passwds for myself and root.  Reboot -- still broken.
> 
> 
> I checked what NIS things were set to run and only found ypbind -- three
> others were not enabled.  I turned off ypbind wich chkconfig, hoping
> that with no NIS, the local passwd file would work OK.  Checked that
> there was a passwd file and no shadow file.  Reboot --- still broken.
> 
I don't know exactly what you problem is but I would suspect it is the
shadow passwds. But only ypbind need to run on the client for NIS to work.
Of course, yppasswdd must ne running to change passwds.
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