Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames!

[Anne Moore]

Hi Rajiv,

It's Red Hat Enterprise 4, and it's local Authentication. (No Ldap.) It's
bizarre, really. 

After it crashed, it came up, but doesn't recognize any usernames at all. I
did a repair, and looked at the /etc/passwd file and it was fine. It seems
the system cannot read from the file. I checked permissions, reset them, on
that and the shadow file, and still, the system cannot recognize logons.

Is there a daemon that is used for this that may not be starting up?

Thanks

Anne 

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Allen Chen
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:48 AM
To: Rajiv.baxi at netzero.net; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames!

Rajiv.baxi at netzero.net wrote:
> Are you able to boot to a Redhat CD?
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Anne Moore" <diabeticithink at yahoo.com>
> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:49:05
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'<redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames!
>
> Hi All,
>
> My server crashed. Now when I boot it up, just about all 
> services/daemons that depend on any username, won't start because it 
> doesn't recognize the username. I can also no longer logon as root or 
> any other username because Red Hat doesn't recognize that the "user
exists."
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot or fix this very odd 
> issue? My entire server is down because of it, which means 450 people 
> can not logon to my network.
>
> I've fixed the file system, and now it has no errors. The Haldaemon 
> won't start, nor the message bus, or atd, or many others.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Anne
>
>   
which authentication do you use? local password or ldap server?
what version of Redhat?

Allen

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