help me to login

pithan · 08-11-2001, 11:39 AM

i upgraded today my system from rehdat 6.2 to 7.1. however
i messed up the system.
the problem is when i start my system all goes normally ,except when i get the login screen. when i give the user id and press enter , it again shows the login screen(ie without asking for the password).can anyone help me sort this without going in for reinstall

unSpawn · 08-11-2001, 04:02 PM

best try n go "under the hood"...
start Linux , at the bootprompt add (w/o quotes) the word "single" or "rescue", or if that wont work add "init=/bin/sh"
all 3 options would land u in initlevel 1 (single user maintenance) where the login is bypassed, ure automatically logged in as root.
now verify the (shadow)password files and directory access are correct for each user.
u can use linuxconf for this.

HTH, somehow

trickykid · 08-11-2001, 10:07 PM

you could maybe even just issue the passwd followed by the user name and reset the password to see if that does a quick fix, or maybe delete the user and then re-add them... with the adduser command.