login failure on RHEL AS 4u4
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Thu Jan 4 16:22:11 UTC 2007
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> 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
>
That fixed it. Thanks.
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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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