Re: only root allowed login ...

[Gene <gene.baxter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Depending upon how your system is set up, the issue could have something 
to do with your /home partition, either full, or not mounting. When you 
are logged in as root can you get into your /home directory fine?

On 06/12/2011 09:57 PM, Ben Kevan wrote:
> Or /var/log/secure depending on your distro.
>
> What login method are you utiizing?
>
>
>
> On 6/12/11, Srinivasa T N<seenutn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On 06/11/2011 07:16 PM, terry white wrote:
> > > ... ciao:
> > >
> > > all of a sudden, i am only able to login as root. this is not something
> > > i was trying to accomplish, and at a loss in figuring out how i did.
> > > anyway.
> > >
> > > as a given, login as a valid user, with correct password, terminated
> > > immediately, with a new login prompt. invalid login attempts iterate
> > > until a new session initiated.
> > >
> > > ftp, and smtp allowed, telnet fails.
> > >
> > > i'm not seeing anything mentioned in the logs with regard to failed
> > > normal user login. i'm at a loss as to where i might start looking.
> > >
> > > any thoughts, suggestion would be much appreciated ...
> > /var/log/message is your friend.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Seenu.
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