Problem adding new user...

[gmail.kalinix]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 23:58 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:49 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > 
> >>Craig White wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:31 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Craig White wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Craig White wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>----
> >>>>>>>reassert the password...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>passwd freddy #assuming you change it back
> >>>>>>>            # re-enter password - watch out for caps lock key
> >>>>>>>            # perhaps try a different password to make sure
> >>>>>>>            # the hash changes in /etc/shadow
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Craig
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Yep. Same symptoms. I cannot use login to log in as freddy, a
> >>>>>>newly created user.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>----
> >>>>>create another user...and try.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>did you ever manually edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow so perhaps there's
> >>>>>a mismatch between them?
> >>>>
> >>>>Nope. I only used useradd, userdel, passwd, usermod, and the Gnome
> >>>>tools.
> >>>>
> >>>>I just tried with another user name, and it fails the same exact
> >>>>way.
> >>>
> >>>---
> >>>can you su ?
> >>>
> >>>su - freddy
> >>>
> >>>Craig
> >>
> >>Yep, no problem.
> >>
> >>In one window...
> >>
> >>
> >>[root at Presario-1 root]# useradd freddy
> >>[root at Presario-1 root]# passwd freddy
> >>Changing password for user freddy.
> >>New UNIX password:
> >>Retype new UNIX password:
> >>passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
> >>[root at Presario-1 root]#
> >>
> >>
> >>In another window...
> >>
> >>[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ su - freddy
> >>Password:
> >>[freddy at Presario-1 freddy]$ pwd
> >>/home/freddy
> >>[freddy at Presario-1 freddy]$ whoami
> >>freddy
> >>[freddy at Presario-1 freddy]$
> >>
> >>The password I entered was, of course, freddy's.
> >>
> >>However, after exit back to myself,
> >>
> >>[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ login
> >>login: freddy
> >>Password:
> >>Login incorrect
> >> 
> >>
> >>login:
> >>
> >>I used the same password that worked with su -
> > 
> > ----
> > then clearly your issue isn't with /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow but is
> > with 'login' command itself which I have never used and a quick perusal
> > of 'man login' tells me that there are circumstances which may affect
> > login ability.
> 
> But man login also says that the special conditions are checked
> before the prompt for password takes place.
> 
> $ ls /etc/usertty
> ls: /etc/usertty: No such file or directory
> 
> How about this...
> 
> $ login jmccarty
> Password:
> 
> Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
> $ whoami
> jmccarty
> $ finger jmccarty
> Login: jmccarty                         Name: Mike McCarty
> Directory: /home/jmccarty               Shell: /bin/bash
> On since Mon Nov  7 14:11 (CST) on :0 (messages off)
> On since Mon Nov  7 16:53 (CST) on pts/2 from :0.0
>     1 day 6 hours idle
> On since Mon Nov  7 15:20 (CST) on pts/3 from :0.0
>     23 hours 1 minute idle
> On since Tue Nov  8 20:16 (CST) on pts/6 from :0.0
> Mail forwarded to Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
> 
> No mail.
> No Plan.
> 
> What does "Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info."
> mean?
> 
> Mike
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Just try and hit CTRL+ALT+F2 and at login prompt type freddy and his
password.

Worked just fine for me.

When you try to login from within bash, it somehow passes your uid for
user freddy, which is not true. As a consequence PAM will reject the
authentication.






Calin Cosma

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