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Re: AW: AW: Cannot login to Debian Lenny



Torsten A. wrote:

> 
> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Thierry Chatelet [mailto:tchatelet@free.fr]
>> Gesendet: Samstag, 18. Oktober 2008 00:28
>> An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Betreff: Re: AW: Cannot login to Debian Lenny
>> 
>> On Friday 17 October 2008 22:27:13 Torsten A. wrote:
>> > Thanks for your quick reply.
>> >
>> > I called in single user mode 'add user test' with the following output:
>> >
>> > Adding user ...
>> > Adding ...
>> > ...
>> > Copying files from '/etc/skel'
>> > Passwd: Permission denied
>> > Passwd: password unchanged
>> > Try again [y/N] n (yes: same again)
>> > Chfn: PAM authentification failed
>> > Adduser: '/usr/bin/chfn test' returned error code 1. Exiting.
>> >
>> > Here is /etc/pam.d/chfn:
>> > #
>> > # The PAM configuration file for the Shadow `chfn' service
>> > #
>> >
>> > # This allows root to change user infomation without being
>> > # prompted for a password
>> > auth               sufficient      pam_rootok.so
>> >
>> > # The standard Unix authentication modules, used with
>> > # NIS (man nsswitch) as well as normal /etc/passwd and
>> > # /etc/shadow entries.
>> > @include common-auth
>> > @include common-account
>> > @include common-session
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Just to complete it. The three files included:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > #
>> > # /etc/pam.d/common-account - authorization settings common to all
>> services
>> > #
>> > # This file is included from other service-specific PAM config files,
>> > # and should contain a list of the authorization modules that define
>> > # the central access policy for use on the system.  The default is to
>> > # only deny service to users whose accounts are expired in /etc/shadow.
>> > #
>> > account    required        pam_unix.so
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > #
>> > # /etc/pam.d/common-auth - authentication settings common to all
>> services
>> > #
>> > # This file is included from other service-specific PAM config files,
>> > # and should contain a list of the authentication modules that define
>> > # the central authentication scheme for use on the system
>> > # (e.g., /etc/shadow, LDAP, Kerberos, etc.).  The default is to use the
>> > # traditional Unix authentication mechanisms.
>> > #
>> > #auth      required        pam_env.so
>> > auth       required        pam_unix.so nullok_secure
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > #
>> > # /etc/pam.d/common-session - session-related modules common to all
>> > services #
>> > # This file is included from other service-specific PAM config files,
>> > # and should contain a list of modules that define tasks to be
>> > # performed at the start and end of sessions of *any* kind (both
>> > # interactive and
>> > # non-interactive).  The default is pam_unix.
>> > #
>> > session    required        pam_unix.so
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Torsten
>> >
>> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> > > Von: Thierry Chatelet [mailto:tchatelet@free.fr]
>> > > Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Oktober 2008 21:34
>> > > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> > > Betreff: Re: Cannot login to Debian Lenny
>> > >
>> > > On Friday 17 October 2008 21:21:43 Torsten A. wrote:
>> > > > Hello everyone,
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm having trouble to login to my Debian Lenny, indepent whether I
>> > > > wan't
>> > >
>> > > to
>> > >
>> 
>> I mean:
>> adduser blabla
>> but not someone already registred as a user. Sorry not to have express
>> myself
>> correctly
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Well, that's what I did. I added an user which was certainly not
> registered yet, with
> 
> adduser certainly_new_user
> 
> and got the dialogue as cited above. That is what you asked me to do,
> wasn't it? I am sorry if I misunderstood you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Torsten

Well, I think now every one wants to know if you can login into this user
account.



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