[ale] Can only login as root user

[Björn Gustafsson]

There could be any number of causes, depending on just what changes you
made.  If you updated your PAM or encryption libraries that might be a
potential cause.

First thing you want to do is check the logs to see if there's some more
detailed info on the failure. Look at /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages,
and see if there's anything logged relating to PAM, encryption/decryption
failures, or similar.

If you're trying a graphical login, you should also try a tty console (or
ssh) login to see if you get different results. Sometimes the graphical
login will fail for non-root users if e.g. you change permissions on /tmp/,
though that should give a different error message.

HTH,
Bj?rn

On 3/26/06, Bj?rn Gustafsson <bjorng at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There could be any number of causes, depending on just what changes you
> made.  If you updated your PAM or encryption libraries that might be a
> potential cause.
>
> First thing you want to do is check the logs to see if there's some more
> detailed info on the failure. Look at /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages,
> and see if there's anything logged relating to PAM, encryption/decryption
> failures, or similar.
>
> If you're trying a graphical login, you should also try a tty console (or
> ssh) login to see if you get different results. Sometimes the graphical
> login will fail for non-root users if e.g. you change permissions on
> /tmp/, though that should give a different error message.
>
> HTH,
> Bj?rn
>
>
> On 3/26/06, Alan Stewart <aeswx at uga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >         I am relatively new to Linux--just set up a dual boot
> > machine using Fedora-4.  I realized I needed the gcc package
> > after the system install.  I pulled it down for install and
> > updated some other packages as well.  After that, I could only
> > login as the root user.  I tried creating new users, changing
> > passwords on the existing users, and still I get
> > 'Authorization Failure' and cannot login as any user but root.
> > I have checked /etc to look for the nologin.txt file, but it
> > does not exist, so it is not that.  Anyone see this problem
> > before or know how to approach resolving it?
> >
> > Thanks,..Alan
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