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Re: user login problem



Hi mike

On 13:24 Mon 24 Jan     , gm c wrote:
> I am using unstable. I cannot login as a user, can as root. I was
> getting pam_start errors and I copied some files to /etc/pam.d that
> had   dpkg-dist at the end of their names. I dont get the errors any
> more but the login for user fails. Dont know if it is a different
> problem but I get a error message "no shell" when I from root su
> <user>. I reinstalled every package that had pam in the name. I dont
> know what else to try. Any ideas??

No shell? Try to assigning one:

# chsh -s /bin/bash username

Of course you will have to change the user and maybe the shell. Else have a
look at its manpage.

I hope that is the problem...

Moritz

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