From joe Sat Apr 24 14:41:08 1999
Subject: Re: login: Permission denied
To: otaku@unixborg.net (Josh Hope)
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 14:41:08 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <1287160453-6885880@unixborg.net> from "Josh Hope" at Apr 24, 99 01:54:01 pm
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Josh Hope writes:
> 
> >> It's becoming frustrating :) Out of all the great minds out there, 
> >> there's gotta be an answer *somewhere*.
> >
> >I haven't been following this too closely, so apologies if you've seen
> >these before...
> >
> > + Can you cd to the home directory (as any user)?  If so, the following
> >   will print out all the intermediate directories:
> 
> I can't cd to it as any user because the machine won't let me login as 
> any user, just as root. But yes, as root I can cd to /home so I suppose 
> that counts :)

I ran into some similar trouble one time with some snapshot. As I
recall, there were a few things that might have gotten in the
way. My system was an alpha though, but similar results.

1) I assume that you are in multi-user and not single user. I had some
weird login trouble until I had my system boot multi user.

2) you might try running pw_mkdb. I had some weird out of sync problems
after editing the passwd file to add some entries I was used to having
around. In addition, I couldn't run vipw for some reason, it died for
some reason I don't recall, or just failed to update something. 

Eventually, I got it running, but am not sure exactly what I did to
do so any more. The thing that seemed to be happening was that I was
unable to change the passwd entries, even to add a password for root.
this left my system totally open and I couldn't leave it running. I
seem to recall that I did a manual install from the snapshot and played
around with the above 1 and 2 to get it working.

Hope this helps.

> 
> 
> I may have to re-install most everything, as something must've gone 
> incorrect when I re-installed the base package. This is the turning point 
> when everything went wrong (if that information helps at all)...
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> -- Josh Hope
> 


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