Re: only root allowed login ...

On 06/11/2011 07:16 PM, terry white wrote:
> ... ciao:
>
> all of a sudden, i am only able to login as root. this is not something
> i was trying to accomplish, and at a loss in figuring out how i did.
> anyway.
>
> as a given, login as a valid user, with correct password, terminated
> immediately, with a new login prompt. invalid login attempts iterate
> until a new session initiated.
>
> ftp, and smtp allowed, telnet fails.
>
> 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 ...
>

/var/log/message is your friend.

Regards,
Seenu.