Not able to login to server thru console but able to login via network using putty

maxy7710 · 03-13-2009, 05:02 AM

Hi

I am not able to login to server from console attached to server, every time i enter username & password but it again asks for username & password.
But when i try to login to server from remote machine, login happens properly.

Cant understand whats gone wrong.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 03-13-2009, 05:09 AM

Are you using root user to login or some other user for that?
Have you made changes to passwd file to not allow the user to login?
Are you using PAM authentication?

maxy7710 · 03-13-2009, 05:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya

Are you using root user to login or some other user for that?
Have you made changes to passwd file to not allow the user to login?
Are you using PAM authentication?

i am trying thru root user.
no changes are made to passwd file
In /etc/pam.d/sys-auth file i have added
password requisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=8 lcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 dcredit=-1 ocredit=-1
but this parameter is for password aging

maxy7710 · 03-30-2009, 02:51 AM

issue resolved
i had oracle 10g installed on my system & while installing i added entries to /etc/pam.d/login

session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so

but as my server is 64 bit so i had to add enrty in /etc/pam.d/login

session required /lib64/security/pam_limits.so

so as i made entries

#session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so
session required /lib64/security/pam_limits.so

i was able to login properly.
anyways thanks for the support

mig28mx · 01-12-2010, 11:27 AM

Hello,
I´m facing the same problem and I have added that line on my /etc/pam.d/login

It will be neccesary to restart a service or reboot the server?

Thank you in advance.