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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