Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:49 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:31 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Craig White wrote:
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reassert the password...
passwd freddy #assuming you change it back
# re-enter password - watch out for caps lock key
# perhaps try a different password to make sure
# the hash changes in /etc/shadow
Craig
Yep. Same symptoms. I cannot use login to log in as freddy, a
newly created user.
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create another user...and try.
did you ever manually edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow so perhaps there's
a mismatch between them?
Nope. I only used useradd, userdel, passwd, usermod, and the Gnome
tools.
I just tried with another user name, and it fails the same exact
way.
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can you su ?
su - freddy
Craig
Yep, no problem.
In one window...
[root@Presario-1 root]# useradd freddy
[root@Presario-1 root]# passwd freddy
Changing password for user freddy.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root@Presario-1 root]#
In another window...
[jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ su - freddy
Password:
[freddy@Presario-1 freddy]$ pwd
/home/freddy
[freddy@Presario-1 freddy]$ whoami
freddy
[freddy@Presario-1 freddy]$
The password I entered was, of course, freddy's.
However, after exit back to myself,
[jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ login
login: freddy
Password:
Login incorrect
login:
I used the same password that worked with su -
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then clearly your issue isn't with /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow but is
with 'login' command itself which I have never used and a quick perusal
of 'man login' tells me that there are circumstances which may affect
login ability.
But man login also says that the special conditions are checked
before the prompt for password takes place.
$ ls /etc/usertty
ls: /etc/usertty: No such file or directory
How about this...
$ login jmccarty
Password:
Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
$ whoami
jmccarty
$ finger jmccarty
Login: jmccarty Name: Mike McCarty
Directory: /home/jmccarty Shell: /bin/bash
On since Mon Nov 7 14:11 (CST) on :0 (messages off)
On since Mon Nov 7 16:53 (CST) on pts/2 from :0.0
1 day 6 hours idle
On since Mon Nov 7 15:20 (CST) on pts/3 from :0.0
23 hours 1 minute idle
On since Tue Nov 8 20:16 (CST) on pts/6 from :0.0
Mail forwarded to Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
No mail.
No Plan.
What does "Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info."
mean?
Mike
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