Hi,

The problem is still presisting. I did try all the options mentioned below. I do have the hard disk still with me. Would any body like to suggest something more to that.

Rgds

Jaishankar

3. Re: Does not allow login even with Su on Redhat 6.2 box

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<P>Hey i think your init process is getting respawned ,, hmm well the reason may be your /etc/passwd file might have got corrupted. <P>U can go in Single user mode and copy /etc/passwd.Old to /etc/passwd and then i think it should allow u to login. <P>Let me know if this worked. <P>Tapesh <P>.......................................ENJOY LINUX.................. <P> <B><I>Philip S Tellis <PHILIP@KONARK.NCST.ERNET.IN></I></B>wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 19 Jul 2002, Jaishankar Krishnan Iyer wrote:<BR><BR>> The box did NOT run any firewall etc. The next day what we found <BR>> was, it would NOT allow us to login at all.<BR>> At the login prompt , when one tried to login as any user or even <BR>> "su" it would just jump back to login prompt.<BR><BR>did you try to login as su or as root?<BR><BR>> Could i get some hint as to which are the likely files which i could<BR>> look into which could cause this problem. This would help us further<BR>> in the penetration test which we are conducting.<BR><BR>have a look at your pam.d/* files. also, by removing some groups, you <BR>may have disabled logins. You'll have to experiment to find