Re: Problem adding new user...
Thomas Springer wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2005, 13:55 -0600 schrieb Mike McCarty:
>I am having a problem adding a new user. Perhaps I don't understand
>the shadow file or sth.
>
>I use FC2 with GNOME. I used at first the command-line I/F since
>I'm more familiar and more comfortable with that technique of
>sys admin.
[snip]
>[jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ login
>login: freddy
>Password:
>Login incorrect
>
>
>What am I missing?
>
>Mike
>--
I also did that and got the same result here with FC4.
There's nothing related to that in
/var/log/secure
/var/log/messages
/var/log/audit/audit.log
Couldn't find anything helpful in
rpm -q --changelog util-linux | grep login
<search> site:bugzilla.redhat.com
Then I thought of how one could strace `login` ? ? ?
Hopefully someone else can tell what's happening.
Thomas
I have more from /var/log/messages
(1) Nov 8 19:35:50 Presario-1 su(pam_unix)[31141]: session opened for
user root by jmccarty(uid=500)
(2) Nov 8 19:38:20 Presario-1 passwd(pam_unix)[31179]: password changed
for freddy
(3) Nov 8 19:38:22 Presario-1 su(pam_unix)[31141]: session closed for
user root
(4) Nov 8 19:38:28 Presario-1 login(pam_unix)[31181]: authentication
failure; logname=jmccarty uid=500 euid=500 tty=pts/4 ruser$Nov 8
19:38:31 Presario-1 login[31181]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR freddy,
Authentication failure
(5) Nov 8 19:38:31 Presario-1 login(pam_unix)[31181]: bad username []
(6) Nov 8 19:38:34 Presario-1 login[31181]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM (null)
FOR , Authentication failure
(7) Nov 8 19:38:34 Presario-1 login(pam_unix)[31181]: bad username []
(8) Nov 8 19:38:36 Presario-1 login[31181]: FAILED LOGIN 3 FROM (null)
FOR , Authentication failure
(9) Nov 8 19:38:37 Presario-1 login(pam_unix)[31181]: bad username []
(10)Nov 8 19:38:39 Presario-1 login[31181]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM
(null) FOR , Authentication failure
(11)Nov 8 19:38:51 Presario-1 su(pam_unix)[31184]: session opened for
user root by jmccarty(uid=500)
(1) is me going su - to create the freddy user
(2) is me changing his password using passwd
(3) is me exiting back to myself
(4)-(10) is my trying to use login to log on as freddy, failing, then
just hitting return until login quit trying
(11) is me su - to root so I can get the content of /var/log/messages
for this e-mail
[root@Presario-1 root]# finger freddy
Login: freddy Name: (null)
Directory: /home/freddy Shell: /bin/bash
Never logged in.
No mail.
No Plan.
[root@Presario-1 root]#
Does this have something to do with freddy not being propagated
to the shadow file?
Nope, I just checked...
[root@Presario-1 root]# grep freddy /etc/shadow
freddy:$1$mMzZcWPf$TubCOWrHFsylDJnnO04qH1:13096:0:99999:7:::
[root@Presario-1 root]#
I did a usermod -c "Freddy" freddy and it took and finger
now shows this Name: rather than (null), but logins still
do not work.
Mike
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