Re: only root allowed login ...

Glynn Clements <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:44:07 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
terry white wrote:

>      i'm not seeing anything mentioned in the logs with regard to failed 
> normal user login.   i'm at a loss as to where i might start looking.
> 
>      any thoughts, suggestion would be much appreciated ...

Once you've tried the obvious possibilities, a systematic approach is
to log in as root, then run e.g.:

	strace -f -o login.txt login twhite

and analyse the resulting file for clues as to where it's going wrong. 

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