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Re: Can't log in anymore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Holt)
Wed Nov 27 19:11:10 1996
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From: David Holt <space@virtual-space.com>
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Try the name of your machine or domain.
David Holt
http://www.virtual-space.com
At 12:00 AM 11/28/96 GMT, you wrote:
>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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