[6502] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Can't log in anymore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Porcu )
Wed Nov 27 19:06:56 1996
From: porcu@poboxes.com (Porcu )
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:00:18 GMT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961119161609.22010B-100000@physics20.Berkeley.EDU>
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Hi, I have a question for you? :)
I installed Linux (Redhat) and cannot even log in because I don't know
the username! I know the password though. But I don't recalled being
prompt to enter a username in the installation.
I would appreciate if you can help me out :)
Thanks
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:21:59 -0800 (PST), in linux.redhat.misc you
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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