SSH works, console doesn't

["Michael Weber" <mweber alliednational com>]

Hmmm...

I can ssh into my server all day long as any user.

If I sit at the console I can log into the GUI as anyone and open terminal windows to do anything.

However, if I Ctrl-Alt-F1 on the console and try to log in it takes my username and password, flashes "Module not known" (I think that's what it says, it's really quick) and goes back to the login prompt.  Logs don't even record the attempt, let alone the failure.

I'm far from being a PAM guru, but that's where I'm thinking the issue is.  I have tried to comment out some of the modules with no success.  I have checked that all of the modules do exist by comparing the directory with another working system.  I'm out of ideas of where to look.

It's running RH 4.5 X86_64 on a Sun x2200.

I almost never log in to the console in text mode so I have no idea when this problem started.  It just came up because I was troubleshooting a different issue with the GUI.  That one was munged perms on /tmp.  (One little bit was wrong, and it was a sticky [pun intended] issue to find!)

TIA!

-Michael



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