Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames!

[Gabi C]

whe you did the repair did you check /var/log/secure, messages ?

I wonder if it is related to pam....



On 10/8/09, Anne Moore <diabeticithink at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Rajiv,
>
> It's Red Hat Enterprise 4, and it's local Authentication. (No Ldap.) It's
> bizarre, really.
>
> After it crashed, it came up, but doesn't recognize any usernames at all. I
> did a repair, and looked at the /etc/passwd file and it was fine. It seems
> the system cannot read from the file. I checked permissions, reset them, on
> that and the shadow file, and still, the system cannot recognize logons.
>
> Is there a daemon that is used for this that may not be starting up?
>
> Thanks
>
> Anne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Allen Chen
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:48 AM
> To: Rajiv.baxi at netzero.net; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames!
>
> Rajiv.baxi at netzero.net wrote:
>> Are you able to boot to a Redhat CD?
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Anne Moore" <diabeticithink at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:49:05
>> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'<redhat-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames!
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> My server crashed. Now when I boot it up, just about all
>> services/daemons that depend on any username, won't start because it
>> doesn't recognize the username. I can also no longer logon as root or
>> any other username because Red Hat doesn't recognize that the "user
> exists."
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot or fix this very odd
>> issue? My entire server is down because of it, which means 450 people
>> can not logon to my network.
>>
>> I've fixed the file system, and now it has no errors. The Haldaemon
>> won't start, nor the message bus, or atd, or many others.
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Anne
>>
>>
> which authentication do you use? local password or ldap server?
> what version of Redhat?
>
> Allen
>
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