by Olle Eh » Tue, 28 Jul 1998 04:00:00
by Leonid Romanyu » Wed, 29 Jul 1998 04:00:00
by Lee Sew Ke » Fri, 31 Jul 1998 04:00:00
You must have telneted in from somewhere to log in as root.
RH does not allow this (by default) for security reasons.
if you need to administer your machine, use your user account then do a
su.
Terry
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by Graffit » Fri, 31 Jul 1998 04:00:00
Um, just to let you know, '*' in the password field doesn't meanQuote:>Slackware partition besides and put a '*' in the password field
>in /etc/passwd. The result was the same when I tried to log in
>so the bug must be in the login process not in the password.
What you want is an empty field.
i.e.:
root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh
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by Arran Pric » Sat, 01 Aug 1998 04:00:00
> There's probably nothing wrong with your password. I tried two
> times to install Redhat 5 with no success. The last time I had
> the same experience. I could mount the Redhat partition from a
> Slackware partition besides and put a '*' in the password field
> in /etc/passwd. The result was the same when I tried to log in
> so the bug must be in the login process not in the password.
Arran
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1. Unable to login at login prompt - not even root
Hi Folks,
If this question's already been answered a million times, please point
me at it - I've been google'ing all day and must have missed it.
Otherwise, any assistance would be ace:
I'm running a Pentium based box as my firewall. The o/s is Mandrake
8.2 with msec set to 5. I've also tried it at msec = 3 and booting to
"linux" instead of "linux-secure" - no change.
When I go to log into the machine at the console, I key in a valid
username & password, it goes to think for a bit and then clears the
screen and puts the login banner at the top with a "<host> login:"
prompt again. It *should* show me a message of the day script and some
debug notes from /etc/bashrc then log me in but it doesn't show
anything.
If I try to use an invalid login name/password it borks quickly as
expected with "Login incorrect", skips a couple of lines and puts a
new "login" prompt up.
If I use a non-existant account name it takes a long time after
entering the user name before coming back to the clear screen & login
prompt - never asks for a password.
I've gone into single user mode and removed a password from one
account - same behaviour with no errors but no access.
I've changed from /bin/bash to /bin/sh - same behaviour
I've set the shell for one user to /usr/bin/uptime to see what would
happen - same behaviour
Under msec 5 I get a "Login incorrect" if I try "root" (as expected)
but under msec 3 I get the same behaviour as if I tried with a
"normal" user.
I've gone to single user mode and run /bin/login and all works fine -
I log in as expected.
No errors being logged to auth.log for the "correct" logins - it's
just doesn't go anywhere.
Any help, pointers, constructive advice, etc would be greatfully
appreciated.
Cheers,
Grant
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