Re: only root allowed login ...

... ciao:

: on "6-12-2011" "Billy Crook" writ:
:	Computers are deterministic machines.  Nothing happens 'all of 
:       the sudden'.

    "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."
 
    perhaps, in context, 'all of a sudden' makes more sense.  CLEARLY, my 
problem is the direct result of something i did.  not to make too fine a 
point of it, it is possible to make a configuration change, and have the 
results of that change, show up much later.  its appearance seems 
'sudden' and the 'root' cause, may not be immediately obvious.
 
    i would even hazard the observation that a cron event, 'sudden'.
 

: See if setting a user's shell to something else (csh, ksh, zsh, ash) 
: makes a difference.
 
    changed to 'csh' with same result.


: And I hope to got you're using TLS on smtp.
 
    i am at a complete loss in understanding 'how' TLS relevant. 


: Which logs have you checked so far?
 
    syslog*, kernel*, messages*, wtmp*, btmp, secure* ...


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