| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Aurisor
Guru
Joined: 20 Sep 2003
Posts: 361
Location: Boston MA
|
 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject: cannot login [solved] |
 |
|
Hello all,
We have a new guy at our office here who just started. His first task was to build his own gentoo box, and he seems to have gotten through most of it just fine. The install is complete, and the system boots to the console login prompt just fine. However, whenever you enter your login name, the system just "thinks" for about 20 seconds, and then asks me for my username again without any error message. It looks like this:
hostname.localdomain login: root
hostname.localdomain login:
I bet if I just went through and redid the install step by step, I'd do whatever he forgot to do, but can anyone recognize what the problem is? It would save me many hours of recompiling.
Thanks!
Last edited by Aurisor on Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:49 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
elgato319
Guru
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 546
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well...
is root allowed to login via shell?
Maybe root login is not permitted via ssh.
You don´t have to recompile everything, just boot up with the Live-CD, mount the drives and chroot into the system
(Gentoo Install Handbook)
Add a normal user and try to login with it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Aurisor
Guru
Joined: 20 Sep 2003
Posts: 361
Location: Boston MA
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Root is allowed to login via shell. I ran:
| Code: |
echo "tts/0" >> /etc/securetty
|
I am not using ssh, I am logging in locally.
I added a user, and still no luck. No matter what I type into the login name prompt I never get prompted for my password. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Valkura
Apprentice
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Posts: 242
Location: Ramsey, MN
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Aurisor
Guru
Joined: 20 Sep 2003
Posts: 361
Location: Boston MA
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Awesome, I'm in!! Thank you SO MUCH! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jmbsvicetto
Moderator
Joined: 27 Apr 2005
Posts: 4730
Location: Angra do Heroísmo (PT)
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Moved from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads.
[mod]Moved this thread to DT in favour of this one for the login issue and of this one for the mdns issue.[/mod]
_________________
Jorge.
Your twisted, but hopefully friendly daemon.
AMD64 / x86 / Sparc Gentoo
Help answer || emwrap.sh
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Duplicate Threads
