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Re: Can't log in anymore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim@perigee.net)
Tue Nov 19 19:53:51 1996
From: jim@perigee.net
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:51:16 -0500
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I wonder if you screwed up your /etc/securetty file somehow?
Jim
Johann Hibschman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just last night I was installing some updated RPMS (pam, util-linux,
> etc.) when I untar'ed something that filled up my partition. Now
> whenever I try to log in, I get "Login incorrect" immediately after
> entering my user name. It doesn't even prompt me for a password.
>
> Using a boot disk, I checked out the passwd file. It was all there. I
> got rid of the root password, but that didn't help.
>
> Any ideas what could have happened to me? I don't know where to start
> looking.
>
> I didn't have problems until I logged out and tried to log back in
> again. I deleted the offending directories, so I now have space on the
> partition. I also tried running e2fsck on the partition, but it did not
> help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Johann
>
> Johann Hibschman
> johann@physics.berkeley.edu
>
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