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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