On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:49 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:31 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>>Craig White wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Craig White wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>----
>>>>>reassert the password...
>>>>>
>>>>>passwd freddy #assuming you change it back
>>>>> # re-enter password - watch out for caps lock key
>>>>> # perhaps try a different password to make sure
>>>>> # the hash changes in /etc/shadow
>>>>>
>>>>>Craig
>>>>
>>>>Yep. Same symptoms. I cannot use login to log in as freddy, a
>>>>newly created user.
>>>
>>>----
>>>create another user...and try.
>>>
>>>did you ever manually edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow so perhaps there's
>>>a mismatch between them?
>>
>>Nope. I only used useradd, userdel, passwd, usermod, and the Gnome
>>tools.
>>
>>I just tried with another user name, and it fails the same exact
>>way.
>
> ---
> can you su ?
>
> su - freddy
>
> Craig
Yep, no problem.
In one window...
[root@Presario-1 root]# useradd freddy
[root@Presario-1 root]# passwd freddy
Changing password for user freddy.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root@Presario-1 root]#
In another window...
[jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ su - freddy
Password:
[freddy@Presario-1 freddy]$ pwd
/home/freddy
[freddy@Presario-1 freddy]$ whoami
freddy
[freddy@Presario-1 freddy]$
The password I entered was, of course, freddy's.
However, after exit back to myself,
[jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ login
login: freddy
Password:
Login incorrect
login:
I used the same password that worked with su -
----
then clearly your issue isn't with /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow but is
with 'login' command itself which I have never used and a quick perusal
of 'man login' tells me that there are circumstances which may affect
login ability.
Craig
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