Re: can't login on console with ctrl-alt-Fn

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Lukas Latz wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I do hope this isn't too stupid a question.
> My system is configured to start x on login. Whenever I try to log into
> a non-x console with ctrl-alt-Fn, either as root or a normal user, the
> prompt claims "login incorrect".
> I'm not sure if that's meant to signify "password incorrect" for that
> user or something else, but I've tried it often enough to be sure about
> typing the correct password.
>
> I suppose that's one of these super-safe security settings that I'll
> have to deactivate in one of the /etc/ config-files?
>
>  
This should not be happening.

You can log into X, right? Do so, and open a terminal window, and type 
the command "su - <username>" and see what happens.

Also, at a console login, type in your password when asked for the 
username, so you can see the keystrokes you're making, to make sure that 
you don't have a strange console keyboard mapping that's changing one of 
your password characters.

You haven't been messing with the files in /etc/pam.d have you?

Kent