On Tuesday 04 May 2004 21:46, Gary Rickert wrote: >I have loaded 7 times in the last 2 days, formatting each time. > Different ways with different symptoms. The only time this has > worked was with default load plus Gnome. Everytime I have added > anything, I get the failed login at the Fedora login screen and > problems in single user. I have scoured the passwd and shadow > files. I need some idea of what to look for. I have not worked with > Unix in many years, and Fedora is a different beast. > The login command is part of the util-linux package. I coulda sworn I installed util-linux-2.12n day before yesterday, but an rpm -qa |grep util-linux says its 2.11y-29, so I'm puzzled. Da**ed puzzled. Its working although I am getting errors from /root/.bashrc when I do something like "su amanda -c "amcheck DailySet1" with the error spit out before the command itself runs just fine. I didn't have that before, with a slightly newer util-linux installed at that time. >-----Original Message----- >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Brown >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:37 PM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: Re: Urgent help needed with Login problems after > installation of FC1 > >Jeff Vian wrote: >> Gary Rickert wrote: >>> Exactly: >>> $ su bob >>> su: incorrect password >>> >>> and no to LDAP. >> >> Is this even giving you a password prompt? > >I took a quick glance at the su source code, and it appears that su >almost always returns "Incorrect password" on failure, even in >situations where the failure is not actually due to an incorrect >password (e.g. a failed PAM call). Hey, I didn't write it. > >So I'm stumped; this could be anything. I'd start from square >one...format, reinstall, and keep complete track of where things go >wrong. My guess is that it's something simple, like a stray colon > in "/etc/password" or something. > >Jeremy -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
