[ale] unable to log in!

[Swantje Willms]

Did you change read/write permissions on any files as root yesterday?

I only encountered the first part of the problem (I wasn't that persisent
with trying to log in, so who knows what would have happened if I had
tried again and again). In a misguided attempt to make my system safer, I
had denied important system files write permission. If you did the same
kind of thing, try logging in as root and changing permissions back.

Swantje

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, 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.
> 
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