This one time, at band camp, Xaveer Leijtens said: > >> I run debian woody on a number of machines, but on one of them I can't > >> login as root. Only if I reboot in single user mode, everything is fine. > > > Did this start after a crash? A similar thing happened to me a while back, > > my machine crashed and then no user could login except root in single user. > > I sniffed a pam problem and, sure enough, my /etc/pam.d directory was gone. > > I just restored it from backup, and all was right again. > > No not as far as I can remember. Besides, the /etc/pam.d directory seems > to be OK. > Maybe I should add that normal users can login on console, and via e.g. > kdm. So it looks like there is some additional authentication required > after going to multiuser mode, that only affects root logins. > > Is there anyone that can give me a hint on where to look? > > Thanks, > Xaveer Somewhere in /etc/pam.d (maybe security?) there is an option to disable root console logins. You might check to see if that's been enabled. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | BOFH excuse #120: we just switched to FDDI. | |steve@lobefin.net | | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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