[ale] unable to log in!

[Jim]

I never actually solved the problem...I just paved over it by installing 
RedHat 7.2. I could run in single-user mode, but I couldn't log in when 
I was at init 3. I didn't see any other way out but the new distro. 
Anyway, I'm functioning again, but all of my Internet settings were 
lost, so I'm trying to restore those.

Rick Huebner wrote:

> I've seen this when someone chmod 777 the su command.  It complained about
> PAM.  The problem was the suid on su was changed and would not run.  I know
> that this not an su problem reported below, but it is possibly the same
> cause of the problem on whatever is running to log the user in.  Have you
> done a chmod 777 anywhere lately?  I can't remember the corrective
> action...maybe one of the guru's here can help.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swantje Willms [mailto:swillms at mail.sis.pitt.edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 12:47 PM
> To: Jim
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] unable to log in!
> 
> 
> Did you change read/write permissions on any files as root yesterday?
> 
> I only encountered the first part of the problem (I wasn't that persisent
> with trying to log in, so who knows what would have happened if I had
> tried again and again). In a misguided attempt to make my system safer, I
> had denied important system files write permission. If you did the same
> kind of thing, try logging in as root and changing permissions back.
> 
> Swantje
> 
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Jim wrote:
> 
> 
>>I woke up this morning to a really bad problem. I booted up and got the
>>login prompt. Fine. I entered a username and hit return. I got the login
>>prompt again. I kept trying to log in and finally got this message:
>>
>>login: PAM failure, aborting: Success
>>INIT: ID "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>
>>Five minutes passed and I was in the same situation all over again. Has
>>anybody ever seen this before? I can log in with Tom's RootBoot Disk.
>>But I don't know what I should be looking for. An fsck doesn't do
>>anything to improve the situation.
>>
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