Hi, thanks! > If you have pam on your system, then it broken > '/etc/pam.d/system-local-login' might be the cause, as well as > user-specific files there. > And if that's not the case, try commenting out pam modules like > mod_access, which can add additional access restrictions. which file has "mod_access" ?
# grep mod_access /etc/* -R grep: /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.org.pem: No such file or directory grep: /etc/ssl/certs/5ed36f99.0: No such file or directory > > Also, you can probably tell if pam is the cause of a problem by > commenting out all the required modules from whole authentication chain > (usually, commenting out everything in system-auth will do) - it should > allow any access w/o password, and it's probably not pam if it > doesn't... can't really think what else it might be, though. I have commented out everything in system-auth, and still can't login, although the result is diff: /*************************************/ This is Gentoo-Server.unknown_domain (Linux i686 2.6.26-gentoo-r1) 12:22:39 Gentoo-Server login: root Last login: Thu Feb 12:09:24 CST 2009 from node07 on pts/0 This is Gentoo-Server.unknown_domain (Linux i686 2.6.26-gentoo-r1) 12:28:36 Gentoo-Server login: /*************************************/ Now it don't prompt the "Password:" -- wcw

