Re: only root allowed login ...

Which shell are you using?  Check the contents of the applicable .[login] 
files for something which might be inhibiting login completion.




On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, terry white wrote:

> ... ciao:
>
> : "Marshall Lake"
> :	Possibly a permissions problem.
>   drwxr-x--- 27 twhite     twhite     3072 2011-06-13 07:03 twhite
>   drwxr-x---  8 t.white    t.white    1024 2011-06-09 03:58 t.white
>   drwx------  2 ups        ups        1024 2009-10-18 13:35 ups
>   drwxr-x--- 20 wd0fpc     wd0fpc     2048 2011-06-13 04:50 wd0fpc
>
> :	Can you su into a user from the root login?
>   yes
>
>
> : "Markus Koßmann"
> :	hard disk full ?
>   no.  38% free space
>
>
> : "Yuri Rodrigues Braz"
> :	A possible reason is that exists the file /etc/nologin
>   ls: cannot access /etc/nologin: No such file or directory
>
>
> : "Herta Van den Eynde"
> :	E.g., "ls -ld /", "ls -ld /home/".
>   drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 3072 2011-06-13 07:28 /
>   drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 1024 2011-06-06 05:07 /home/
>
>
> : "Ben Kevan"
> :	What login method are you utiizing?
>
>    from a local machine, into root, then su 'user' ...
>
>
> -- 
> ... it's not what you see ,
>    but in stead , notice ...

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