Problem adding new user...

[Mike McCarty]

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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>----
>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>----
>>>>>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.
>>>
>>>---
>>>can you su ?
>>>
>>>su - freddy
>>>
>>>Craig
>>
>>Yep, no problem.
>>
>>In one window...
>>
>>
>>[root at Presario-1 root]# useradd freddy
>>[root at Presario-1 root]# passwd freddy
>>Changing password for user freddy.
>>New UNIX password:
>>Retype new UNIX password:
>>passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
>>[root at Presario-1 root]#
>>
>>
>>In another window...
>>
>>[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ su - freddy
>>Password:
>>[freddy at Presario-1 freddy]$ pwd
>>/home/freddy
>>[freddy at Presario-1 freddy]$ whoami
>>freddy
>>[freddy at Presario-1 freddy]$
>>
>>The password I entered was, of course, freddy's.
>>
>>However, after exit back to myself,
>>
>>[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ login
>>login: freddy
>>Password:
>>Login incorrect
>> 
>>
>>login:
>>
>>I used the same password that worked with su -
> 
> ----
> 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 at sbcglobal.net

No mail.
No Plan.

What does "Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info."
mean?

Mike
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