Re: Can only login as root

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

matt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a Woody v3.0 with a 2.4.18 kernel.
>
> I can only login as root, if I try to login as anyone else it does not
> even ask for a password, it juts says 'Login incorrect'.
>
> Regardless of which username I enter it always says 'System bootup in
> progress - please wait'
>
> My Samba does not work, nor can I use Swat.
>
> There is something wrong with autentication.
>
> What can I do to trouble shoot this issue ?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Matt
>
>
>  
I vaguely remember reading similar symptoms on a Red Hat list about 4 or 
5 years ago, and it seemed to be a fairly common problem with that 
release. Unfortunately, I don't remember any more about it, or even know 
a good search time to google for.

What I'd do is at the LILO prompt (or equivalent), enter "linux single" 
and see if you can boot normally into single user mode. If so, I'd 
switch runlevels (init 2) and see what happens. Then go from there.

Kent