I Can't Login in a VC terminal

Koven · 02-19-2007, 01:05 PM

I don't know why I can't login like a normal user in a VC terminal. This is my /etc/securetty file. I think I edited once but I don't remember whether is something worng with it. I only can login as root user in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1). I can login as a normal user from a SSH connection. So think the problem is "securetty" file?

Quote:

#
# /etc/securetty
#

console
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6

# End of file

I edited /etc/pam.d/login file but I can't see anything rare so I really want to know If I'm doing something wrong.

Quote:

#%PAM-1.0
auth requisite pam_securetty.so
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_unix.so nullok
auth required pam_tally.so onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog
# use this to lockout accounts for 10 minutes after 3 failed attempts
auth required pam_tally.so deny=2 unlock_time=600 onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog
account required pam_access.so
account required pam_time.so
account required pam_unix.so
#password required pam_cracklib.so difok=2 minlen=8 dcredit=2 ocredit=2 retry=3
#password required pam_unix.so md5 shadow use_authtok
session required pam_unix.so
session required pam_env.so
session required pam_motd.so
session required pam_limits.so
session optional pam_mail.so dir=/var/spool/mail standard
session optional pam_lastlog.so

Regards

unSpawn · 02-25-2007, 08:40 PM

/etc/securetty only restricts root account logins, not regular users.
Does your system logs say anything?

Koven · 03-01-2007, 08:22 AM

This is what I get when I try to login in this machine

Quote:

Feb 3 14:14:44 koven login[3179]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on 'vc/1' FOR `koven', Authentication failure

It's a normal user, and that's what it's rare.

Regards

live_dont_exist · 03-01-2007, 08:37 AM

Hey Koven,
Create another temp user and try and login with that? Do you still face the same problem?If you can login with this new user then it's a problem with koven.Maybe just a password reset or something.

Also when you log in as root look at the permissions of /home/koven. They should be owned by koven and not root with permissions set to 0700.So if its owned by root when logged in as rootdo a:

Code:

chown -Rh koven:10 /home/koven

Post back if still no luck.

Cheers
Arvind