Re: Help: Can not login at local tty!!

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Li Weichen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I cannot login onto the system on any local tty.  Another system
> administrator has deleted sth by mistake.  And he was not sure what he had
> deleted!
>   
I thought perhaps you meant he had "deleted ssh", but below you say that 
ssh is fine. So what do you mean by "sth"? I find no package with that name.

> Now the system can not be logged in at local tty.  After input the user name
> and press enter, I will get an error " Usage: /bin/login <username>".  But
> the ssh is quite fine.
>
> Can anybody help me please?
>
> Best regards!
>
>   
Once you ssh in, can you su to another user?

I don't suppose your user in /etc/passwd is set to no shell, etc?

I don't suppose "etc/nologin" exists?

(I don't think either of these would result in the symptoms you've 
described, but I'm just reachin'.)


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Kent