Exactly: $ su bob su: incorrect password and no to LDAP. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Brown Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:10 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Urgent help needed with Login problems after installation of FC1 I'm a little confused by your explanation. Are you getting prompted for a password when you try to su from root to a non-root user? Something like: $ su bob su: incorrect password Did you set up any sort of alternative authentication mechanism, like LDAP? Jeremy Gary Rickert wrote: >I am at my wits end. This is/ is intended to be a production machine to test >and package our software, and I must get going. >The system: >AMD XP 2800+ Barton >Asus a7n8x-la Nforce2 mobo >Nvidia mx-440 onboard graphics >512mb PC-2700 >120gb Western Digital hd >Samsung 16x DVD-ROM >Cyberdrive 52x CD-R/RW >Generic Floppy drive >6-port Media Card Reader > >Since Gnome looked to be working OK, I went ahead and reinstalled adding the >database and other packages I will need and I am back to where I was before, >can't login. I booted single user, tried to su to my user and get su: >Incorrect password. Changed password and same. Created dummy user, password >and same. CD /HOME ls -l shows >drwx 3 user 500 ... >drwx 3 user2 user2 ... >I know ther are folks out there that know this stuff, while I can still call >it "stuff", and I could sure use an idea of what to do next. > >I have cleaned up this message history to make it easier to read. Thanks >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:08 AM > >>From Gnome desktop, I was able to logout user, login root, over and over. >Tried it from terminal again and same symptom. > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:28 AM > >Load with Gnome desktop went OK. Am able to boot from floppy. From Gnome >desktop/terminal, I was able to su to root, su to user, and then got same >symptom trying to su back to root. > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:44 AM > >df shows hdb2 as /, hdb1 as /boot, and none as /dev/shm.??? > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:41 AM > >After another minimal install, I was able to add my user and su to it and su >back to root. By the way, I was unable to boot using the boot floppy. >Apparently set a password (all authentication tokens updated successfully) >and change again to my user. However, it did not ask for a password. Was >able to su to root and user several times. Do get "/bin/bash: /root/ >.bashrc: permission denied" message. > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:56 AM > >Still fighting, and need some ideas. >I did a minimal install and was able to login as root, create and login to >my user. All looks well. Installed again, adding only X-windows. X did not >start with boot. Ran startx & to get session. Same story but was unable to >su - after logging as my user. Started another x session and was able to su >- from there, however I was not able to su back to root after changing back >to my user again. Tried in another X and same symptom. Again same. This >should be a good clue, I would think. It is like it does not read the passwd >when I return. Have to ctrl c to get out of the passwd entry on the su -. > >Don't know if I tried the su root...user...root in the minimum install, so I >am going to do that again. > >Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:07 PM > >I solved the dual boot problem. There is a setting for how long the boot >option display, and it was set to 0. Set it to 10 and it works fine. The >login problem is still a problem. I have reloaded FC1 once again and I still >cannot login, root or my user. The passwd and edited shadow files are >attached in case I am missing something. > >Jeff Vian >Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:22 PM > >As far as Fedora not allowing user login; I usually use the system tool >for user admin from the menu and as long as I create the user account >and put in the password for that user they always can log in. > > > > >>>>I installed Fedora, default server on a new slave drive on my HP pavilion >>>>a320n XP system. When booting after the install, the fedora boot will not >>>>accept my user or root password. Under "linux single" I can see that the >>>>user and root accounts exist. I can create a user, and that works OK. I >>>>cannot login. >>>> >>>> >>>> > > > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
