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Newbie Question: Only root can login?
Couldn't su or login, even after creating user with 'useradd -m test' However, you were correct -- authentication was logged in /var/log/messages. By running a tail -f on messages, I was able to see this: su: pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can't contact LDAP serv As you'd expect, I restarted...- cdhopp
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- Forum: Linux (client/desktop)
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Newbie Question: Only root can login?
I cannot find the auth.log file, either at the location you specified or by doing a find. Is there any chance that logging is turned off for this function or that the log file has a different name on Red Hat? Also, I have tried to su to one of the other users. There is no prompt for password...- cdhopp
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- Forum: Linux (client/desktop)
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Newbie Question: Only root can login?
I'm not sure how I ended at this point, but, now, on my Red Hat 7.3 box, I can no longer login as anyone but root. Linux has been configured to automatically start GDM for login, so I'm not sure if the problem is with GDM or XDM. More likely, I think I have something configured wrong in...- cdhopp
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