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user cannot login....?

Hello. i hope somebody can help me, My linux machine doesn"t allow anybody to login anymore, when someone try's the machien reply's with "login incorrect".

I have try to solve it using the "single-user mode" but in that mode the filsystem is Read Only"so i cannot change anything.

Did you recently add that user? Or did you install the shadow-suite? Have a look at /etc/shadow. If it exists and the new user isn't added, have a look at /etc/passwd. If the user's located there, run pwconv.

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peterhartman

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Can I run pwconv while in single-user mode ?????

Why does it say that the file system is Read-Only ?????

The filesystem must be mounted as read-only. Type mount to check that. I'm not sure if you can run pwconv in single-user mode, but normally you should be able to.

Did you check whether the user is added in /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd?

peterhartman

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i,m going to check that

peterhartman

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okay, i have checked it, the command pwconv isn't available.....!

My machine gives me a error concerning the kernel version, the version kernel isn't the good version?????

pwconv isn't available, but /etc/shadow is? Strange. The error message means nothing to me. What kernel do you run?

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Check the amount of free memory on your HD. Can sou login as root in multi-user mode. Linux stops the login of nun superuser accounts if the amount of free memory on your HD gets low.

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peterhartman

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That solved my problems , installing a new version off linux (2.0.34)

Thank you all for the suggestions