login failure on RHEL AS 4u4
Ray Van Dolson
rvandolson at esri.com
Wed Jan 3 22:07:57 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> I have a RHEL box that I am suddenly unable to log in to. It's not
> exactly telling me a wrong uname or pwd, but from a console it acts like
> it times out and goes back to the login prompt. I've stopped nscd and
> removed all references to LDAP in nsswitch.conf so that shouldn't be a
> problem now.
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas to get me on the box? I can reboot
> into runlevel 1 with no trouble, but I can't figure out what to do from
> there to fix it.
Hmm, sounds like you've checked the obvious. Maybe you could re-run
authconfig just to make sure it's not something that was touched in the PAM
directory?
Ray
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