Error message in /var/log/messages
login(pam_unix)[26769]:session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
login[26769]: Module is unknown
init: open(/dev/pts/0): No such file or directory
I have created a new user also but I couldn't login to the system. But I could login to the system as root and also with same new username password through putty from another machine.
I have a Linux machine which I set up for my personal use at home. I installed Fedora Core 11 a long time ago, and recently I noticed that I am not able to log in as root (I didn't realize this issue until recently since I always have been logging in as a user account that I created during the FC11 installation).When I login as a user account instead of root, I can use the su command with the password I set up for the root account. Even when I'm in GUI mode and try to make changes to the system from the user account, the GUI asks to enter the root password, and I type the password I set for root and it works. However, if I boot the machine and try to log in the system as root, password that I set up is rejected.
I'm very puzzled with this problem because with my limited knowledge on Linux system, I thought the root password and the su password are the same (i.e. when you install Linux OS, you set the root password, and you use the same password for using the su command). I do not know exactly when this problem started, but the only thing that I can think of as a cause of this issue is that I once changed the root password from GUI using System > Administration > Root password since the system one time complained about the low security strength of the root password.
Im not getting able to neither add new users using command useradd nor delete existing users using command userdel. And even Im not getting able to login into any existing users except root. It was ok before. Im having this problem very recently on my linux server. Im using RHEL5.
View 9 Replies View RelatedEnvironment: A 32-bit kernel RHEL5.3 system running on a virtual machine. The root(/) filesystem is on an LV.
Issue: Unable to resize the FS after extending the root LV since it is mounted. After extending the LV, online resizing of the FS was not supported and the root filesystem could not be unmounted while it was in use. On rebooting, I got a kernel panic error. In runlevel 1, I couldn't run chroot, couldn't find the /etc/fstab, root FS could not be mounted, fsck did not run (tried block 31 for second copy of superblock using dd count=1 bs=4k skip=31 seek=1 if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sda2), couldn't find any rpm on installation media to install unix-utils rpm. On running commands in runlevel 1,
I got the following output.
i want to do that whenever root is logged in he cannot get GUI mode,he only get text mode or virtual console mode.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI was reading /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc and see this 3 lines:
# Allow root logins?
# Default is false
#AllowRootLogin=false
this doesn't mean that root can't login in a graphical mode? (I can login as root)
[Code]...
I edited the passwd file to modify the default shell for root from bash to tcshnow when I try to login to root it gives me the following error:"su: /bin/tcsh : No such file or directory"
View 3 Replies View Relatedwhen users login in kde4 it shows kstartconf4 not found or failed error code 127. for both suse 11. 1 and suse 11.2 but kde3 works well I removed .kde etc it still failed
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been installing proftpd on a server running fedora 8. It is setup in standalone server type, and I checked that the process is running and listening to port 21.
When I try to login using a ftp client in Normal mode with root user & password , I receive first a 220, then a 530 login incorrect error.
Can you help me?
I've been pasting my proftpd.conf configuration file below
Code:
In order to avoid switching user, is it possible to open dolphin in root mode. If yes, what is the command, and the keyboard shortcut to enter it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed lucid last week, and this morning installed some updates that appeared in update manager and then started having issues with permissions so I rebooted. Now when I try and log in I get the message Authentication Error Normally this wouldn't be a problem I would reboot again hit ESC just before loading Grub appeared and go into recovery mode and change the password for my master user. But I never get the chance to press ESC, and even I hold the key down from the time my BIOS flash screen is up, I never get the GRUB menu.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have linux workstation. All users home directories are NFS mounts.
Since I am facing packet loss issue users are unable to login to the workstation.
I found the packet loss using mtr from workstation to filer.
Matt's traceroute [v0.54]
Hostname
What are the things I have to check to resolve this packet loss.
Following is the ethtool out put of the workstation
Settings for eth0:
I have just installed Fedora 13 but unable to login through root though users can login.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using fedora 12 along with Windows XP the problem is I'm unable to login as root but I'm able to authenticate with the same password as another user.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm not able to login as a root through ssh but i'm able to switch as a root user once i get into the Debian boxI already modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config to PermitRootLogin Yes and restart the ssh service
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am using CentOS. When i try to login as root using login command,i get the following:
Code:
[avi@localhost ~]$ login root
Password:
[code]...
I am unable to login as root to a linux machine through SSH. Login through console is working fine. SSH is not working only for root user. It is working fine for other users. I have checked the sshd_config file and it says:PermitRootLogin yesI'd be grateful if somebody can give an idea about what is going wrong.
View 15 Replies View Relatedim using RHEL5.3 after installing 3 i am unable to login in GNU at the starting screen im using tata protan+ net on this.
View 14 Replies View RelatedOn a new installation of Linux Red Hat server, I was adding new users from the list using "newusers" command. I did not realize that one of the users was "root" so this is what line I loaded by error (among other users) : root:root:1176:501::/home/circuser:/bin/bash all other users from the list (160 of them) got loaded properly. I still have valid root login that I could use, but I'm not able to log in as root anymore. If I log in as user and then try "su" or "su -" I get error: ": No such file or directory".
I compared /etc/passwd, group and shadow on this server with old one I'm replacing and entry for root looks the same:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash ( in passwd)
root:x:0: (in /etc/group)
root:$1$OILC.ETm$LkoGprgqqgv6v8oLRUBnf.:15153:0:99999:7::: (in /etc/shadow) - similar to my old server
After upgrading FEdora 13, user ravi was added. Then after few days neel was added. Both of the users were already existing. So when attempting login to neel, we found that every file is owned by ravi. So we did$chown -R neel:neel But after that problem started and when we rebooted the machin, there were no list of users on login screen. (then I connected to that comp remotely, it worked, but somehow I was not able to switch to root) It says incorrect password (though I new it very well). So I went to maintenance mode and changed the root password, and rebooted. Still problem persists.Now I am not able to login as root (from anywhere, login screen , terminal, remote)No list of usernames on login screen ( but i can choose, other and type login-password)
View 5 Replies View RelatedUsing openSUSE 11.4 (64-bit). Desktop is default KDE. All of a sudden I am no longer able to login. My desktop only has one user and when I key in the password (which I am 100% sure it is correct!) I get the dreaded "Login failed" message. I followed these instructions without success: How to reset/recover the ROOT password in openSUSE | SUSE & openSUSE Following the instructions in the above link, I tried re-typing the old password and created new ones too. But I keep on getting the Login Failed message. A strange situation
View 9 Replies View Relatedi am not able to do root login even from terminal also. I was trying to block remote login through this ........
>>How can we prevent the "root" account from remote logging in via SSH
>>and Telnet but still permit root-equivalent personal accounts to log in
>>remotely?
[code]....
after this i am not able to make root login from su as well.
I have just upgraded my laptop from F8 to F10, and I am unable to login to the system as root user.At login, it provides 2 options, one is the user I created and another called 'other'.On selecting 'other' and providing uid/passwd as 'root/<rootpassword>, it says "Unable to Authenticate User"!!However, when I tried to access my windows partition, it happily accepted the root password
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have installed Fedora 10 on VmWare. I created another user besides root. I am able to login to that user using GNome login and i can switch to root using "su" command and perform the additional tasks.
Now, for one lab assignment, i need to login as root using GUI. But whenever i am trying to do, I am unable to do that. Is there some additional things that i have to do to login as root from GUI?
not able to Login as a root in my fedora 11 machine , but I can login with other user.when I login with as a root user the error occurred "user authentication failed ". After login with user account when I open Terminal and try to login with same username = root and Password= admin then I can login .
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to someone get to their records on a CentOS 5 box and the username/passwords they have given me are not being recognized.
View 11 Replies View Relatedi just installed fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso which i downloaded from net, i given root password during installation but now i am getting authentication failure.. how to login as root user?
View 13 Replies View RelatedEverything was fine yesterday, but today, the situation is the following:
When I try to login as root, using Gnome, after I enter username and password, it can do three things:
1- It brings me back to the GUI login screen again
2- Brings me to the prompt login screen (black)
3- It lets me in but I have no top or bottom navigation bars. (Sorry, cannot remember the actual names...) Sometimes I have access to a console screen, which allows me to reboot, and sometimes not, in which case I have to do a cold reboot. Not good.
The last attempt I made, I used the KDE interface and everything was fine.
I really don't understand what happened between yesterday and today, nobody but me uses this system at home and remote logins for root are disabled.
The systems is CentOS 5.3 with SELinux enforced.
In the freshly installed Fedora 12, I installed java and maven and added following files into /etc/profile.d folder:
java.sh
Code:
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.6
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
maven.sh
Code:
export MAVEN_HOME=/opt/maven
export PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH
Now when I try to login to "root" account giving "su" command , it gives me the error :
bash: /root: is a directory
I've installed F12 twice now. After completing the installation and getting all the updates via YumEx, my network trouble begin after a reboot. I am not able to login as root under gnome so I can't see the services panel.
Tried to reinstall 'NetworkManager' after the fact but of course I have no network connections so I may have made the problem worse. I hate to reinstall and repeat the same troubles over again as it consumes a lot of time. I don't know where to begin.