On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:03:13PM -0600, McGillan, Patrick wrote: > Hi, > I had to back my laptop off from Woody back to the stable version. > Everything seems to work, except only root is allowed in. In fact, even > though there is a root passwd, it doesn't ask for it when I enter root for > user name and hit enter.
I don't like the sound of that (I presume that you *had* a root password :-)
What does
# pwck -r
say ?
> Any attempt to login in as a normal user, goes no
> where. I also note that when attempting to login as someone else, it always
> says please wait while system is starting, before returning the login
> prompt.
>
> Looked at the inittab file, but didn't see any problem there, where else
> should I look?
Does /etc/nologin or /etc/nologin.boot exist? They would prevent people
from logging in (exception).
# grep nologin /etc/init.d/*
may also provide some clues.
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