user login

[extremedatos]

hi all.

Im working with redhat 5 and im adding different users and but when they try to log on the error i have is log on failed. i change the password but still the same.

Any ideas?

thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

when they try to log on

[ul]
[li]What kind of login is that ? Virtual console, display manager, secure shell, all of these ?[/li]
[li]Only happens when logging in ? Or also when substituting user with [tt]su[/tt] ?[/li]
[li]Also happens for short passwords ? Some systems cut the passwords. The one I saw cut them to 8 characters. ( No, not a RedHat. But I would still check it. )[/li]
[/ul]


Feherke.

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[BadBigBen]

How are you adding them?


Ben
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[extremedatos]

im adding with useradd. and im testing it directly to the console.

thanks

 

[patw]

Start with the basics -

Caplock on or off?

Numlock on or off?

Scroll lock on or off?

You'd be surprised how often one of those locks being in the 'wrong' state when the password is entered causes symptoms like you describe.


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[Annihilannic]

Do their home directories exist?

Annihilannic.

 

[donb01]

Usually it asks what shell you want to assign to them, like /bin/sh or /bin/bash. Make sure it's not set for nologin or something like that...