On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 19:11, CN wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed woody in 3 boxes. Suddently I can't login to one of > them. > I am not sure if this problem has to do with the upgrade of wine package > (version 20040615). > > Now I have only 2 ways to access this problematic box: > (1) using boot floppy disks > (2) starting X by sudo in startup script and using xterm from within > window managers > > However, I can't su from non-root accounts in xterm, either. su yields > error message: > > su: Module not found > Sorry. > > sudo seems to be working fine. > When I try "telnet localhost" from xterm in the same box, the system > prompts me "login:", but after any account followed by enter key (line > feed) are entered, the system does not prompt me password. It instead > directly responds with login failure. > > If I telnet from other boxes and give the problematic box the login > account, the problematic box does not prompt password, either. Then it > says: > > System bootup in progres - please wait > > Files passwd and shadow look good. > > How to fix this? Please!
Hi, I wonder if "pam"(the "pluggable authentication modules") has somehow got stuffed up? That might explain the "su: Module not found" message. In directory /etc/pam.d I have a number of files. The "login" one is critical to allowing user logins. There's lots of comments in these files, but the critical files/lines are: file login: auth required pam_env.so @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session @include common-password file common-auth: auth required pam_unix.so nullok_secure file common-account: account required pam_unix.so file common-session: session required pam_unix.so file common-password: password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 And of course the pam_unix.so, pam_env.so, etc files need to be available. On my system they are in: /lib/security There's no guaruntee that pam is the problem, just my guess.. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
