user logon in loop, can u help me ??

[fishfat3]

i'm running Solaris7(intel). Created a userid using admintool, logout and attempted to logon with new userid, the screen flashed something up but it's so quick i cannot read it.logon process then loops back to logon screen. now i cannot logon with root. i'm trying not to blow away it away and reinstall if i can help it. also, user home dir is $HOME.

john

 

[jamisar]

you have no home dir. as long you use admintool for create users account you never will learn how to do this by hand.
1) edit /etc/passwd, append the new user
2) run /bin/pwconv, to check /etc/[passwd|shadow]
3) run: passwd username, set the passwd
4) make the user-home-dir
5) chown -R username:usergroup user-home-dir
that's all ------------ jamisar
Einfachheit ist das Resultat der Reife. (Friedrich Schiller)
Simplicity is the fruit of maturity.

 

[wtrepani]

Are there any users who can log onto the system? If so, log on as one of them and try to su (without the -) to root. If not you may have to boot to the cdrom and modify the /etc/passwd file to change the root users home dir (if that is the problem).

Also, to add a user, try this:

# useradd -u (uid) -g (gid) -c "comment" -d /export/username username
# mkdir /export/username
# chown username:group /export/username

I have scripted this process to read from a file the new username and who to copy it from and it adds the user and creates the dirs and all for me. Even sets the passwd to expired.

Will

 

[fishfat3]

hey guys, i would like to give it a shot, but at present i cannot logon to the system as root. first the system went into a loop while trying to logon with newly created user and when i tried to logon as root the screen would flash as if it was going to come up in a console mode and then went back to the logon screen. this is a machine i'm using to learn solaris on and i can just "nuke" it but i would like to recover as if this was in the real world.

 

[wtrepani]

power off the system. Put the Solaris Softdisk disk 1 of 2 in the drive. When you power it on and it starts to boot, press <STOP><A> and you will get an ok prompt. Type 'boot cdrom -s' and it will boot the OS from the cd into single user mode. This will not mount any filesystems for you. You will need to mount the filesystem that contains /etc to /mnt. At this point you can go to /etc and vi passwd to change the home dir to / for root if that is the problem. If that doesn't fix it, please post a copy of your /etc/passwd file so we can look at it.

Will

 

[chughes]

make sure that you change the initial login to CDE and not
motif, this will cause th problem you are describing.
on the intial login screen (Enter username) there
is a pulldown for &quot;Session&quot;, make sure it is set for CDE