[ale] unable to log in!

[David Brooks]

Hrmm, try booting with a boot disk, mounting your partition, and
blanking out the root password field in /etc/shadow.  Sounds like PAM is
freaking out.

See if you can log in with no password.  Alternatively, check your
messages file and see if there's anyhing in /var/log/messages about
PAM.  Also, try booting into single-user and seeing if you enocunter the
same problems.

-Dave

On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 10:07, Jim wrote:
> I woke up this morning to a really bad problem. I booted up and got the 
> login prompt. Fine. I entered a username and hit return. I got the login 
> prompt again. I kept trying to log in and finally got this message:
> 
> login: PAM failure, aborting: Success
> INIT: ID "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> 
> Five minutes passed and I was in the same situation all over again. Has 
> anybody ever seen this before? I can log in with Tom's RootBoot Disk. 
> But I don't know what I should be looking for. An fsck doesn't do 
> anything to improve the situation.
> 
> 
> ---
> This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.
> See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems should be 
> sent to listmaster at ale dot org.
> 
> 
-- 
david a. brooks
* systems administrator
* stayonline.net
* voice: .. 770/933-0600 x217
* email: .. db at stayonline.net
* :wq!


---
This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.
See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems should be 
sent to listmaster at ale dot org.