Urgent help needed with Login problems after installation of FC1

[Gary Rickert]

NO...

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Jeff Vian
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:21 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Urgent help needed with Login problems after installation of
FC1



Gary Rickert wrote:

>Exactly:
>$ su bob
>su: incorrect password
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>and no to LDAP.
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Is this even giving you a password prompt?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
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>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
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>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:
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>$ su bob
>su: incorrect password
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>Did you set up any sort of alternative authentication mechanism, like LDAP?
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>Jeremy
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>Gary Rickert wrote:
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>>I am at my wits end. This is/ is intended to be a production machine to
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>test
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>>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
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>>Since Gnome looked to be working OK, I went ahead and reinstalled adding
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>the
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>>database and other packages I will need and I am back to where I was
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>before,
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>>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
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>call
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>>it "stuff", and I could sure use an idea of what to do next. 
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>>I have cleaned up this message history to make it easier to read. Thanks
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>>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:08 AM
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>>>From Gnome desktop, I was able to logout user, login root, over and over.
>>Tried it from terminal again and same symptom.
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>>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:28 AM
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>>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.
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>>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:44 AM
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>>df shows hdb2 as /, hdb1 as /boot, and none as /dev/shm.???
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>>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:41 AM
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>>After another minimal install, I was able to add my user and su to it and
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>su
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>>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.
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>>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:56 AM
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>>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
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>passwd
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>>when I return. Have to ctrl c to get out of the passwd entry on the su -.
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>>Don't know if I tried the su root...user...root in the minimum install, so
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>I
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>>am going to do that again.
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>>Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:07 PM
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>>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
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>still
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>>cannot login, root or my user. The passwd and edited shadow files are
>>attached in case I am missing something.
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>>Jeff Vian
>>Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:22 PM
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>>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.
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>>>>>I installed Fedora, default server on a new slave drive on my HP
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>pavilion
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>>>>>a320n XP system. When booting after the install, the fedora boot will
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>not
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>>>>>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.
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