[ale] unable to log in!

[Jim]

No permissions were changed. In fact, I logged in one time this morning 
without problems. I had to reboot and the problem appeared.

Swantje Willms wrote:

> 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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