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Ed Coates
edcoates at nighthawk.dyndns.org
Sat Sep 20 17:40:12 CDT 2003
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, linux wrote:
> Having a bit of a problem with one of my linux systems: When trying to log
> into a console session, I never get a password prompt. I give a username at
> the login: prompt but it doesn't seem to accept my login name and just
> retruns another login: prompt each time. What could be causing this? (It
> happens to 'em all, tty1 through tth6)
>
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You might try looking at the other ttys. Most distros nowadays will put
log files on the ttys somewhere around tty10 or so. See if you see any
errors there. If no errors are seen, disconnect the machine from the
network for security measures, and then see if you can boot it into single
user mode and look around there.
Ed
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