[ale] unable to log in!

[Rick Huebner]

I've seen this when someone chmod 777 the su command.  It complained about
PAM.  The problem was the suid on su was changed and would not run.  I know
that this not an su problem reported below, but it is possibly the same
cause of the problem on whatever is running to log the user in.  Have you
done a chmod 777 anywhere lately?  I can't remember the corrective
action...maybe one of the guru's here can help.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Swantje Willms [mailto:swillms at mail.sis.pitt.edu]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 12:47 PM
To: Jim
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] unable to log in!


Did you change read/write permissions on any files as root yesterday?

I only encountered the first part of the problem (I wasn't that persisent
with trying to log in, so who knows what would have happened if I had
tried again and again). In a misguided attempt to make my system safer, I
had denied important system files write permission. If you did the same
kind of thing, try logging in as root and changing permissions back.

Swantje

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Jim wrote:

> I woke up this morning to a really bad problem. I booted up and got the
> login prompt. Fine. I entered a username and hit return. I got the login
> prompt again. I kept trying to log in and finally got this message:
>
> login: PAM failure, aborting: Success
> INIT: ID "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
> Five minutes passed and I was in the same situation all over again. Has
> anybody ever seen this before? I can log in with Tom's RootBoot Disk.
> But I don't know what I should be looking for. An fsck doesn't do
> anything to improve the situation.
>
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