On 5/23/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
New scenario, same problem. Installed 4.4. Logged in through gdm on console as root. Created 3 non-root users. Ran yum update (578 packages - worked fine). Rebooted.
Shouldn't matter, but you should really *never* log into the GUI as root for a server. I smack my junior admins around verbally when I see this sort of thing (I should probably really stop watching reruns of House and Scrubs...) If you installed enough to get the gui, you should have also gotten firstboot, which would have prompted you to create a user. Does this user work? Did you log in with this user before you logged in with root? (If not, can you try that?)
Checked permissions on all three users' directories - everything looks fine.
What options are you setting for these users(shell, home directory, enabled/disabled status etc)?
Logged out. Tried to log in as each non-root user - same <10 second error / login failure.
This error should tell you that it dropped an error file. Have you looked at the contents of this file?
Figured, hmm, maybe I should just delete and recreate the users. Fired up the gdm users & groups applet. Deleted last user. Fine. Deleted next user. Fine. Deleted main/first non-root user. Still circling (five minutes now). Something is definitely awry here.
The gui tools can sometimes hide useful errors. Can you try adding/removing users from the cli with useradd/userdel?
Aborted the applet. Checked /home - all three directories are now gone. Checked /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow - all three users gone. Recreated second user. Paths and passwd/shadow look fine. Logged out. Attempted login with that user - failed again.
How are you looking at /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? If you're opening them with an editor, you could be inadvertently changing the permissions.
Took Jim's advice and ran rpm -Va | grep -v '\.\.\.\.\.\.\.T' and got a whole long list of discrepancies, but nothing that looks too suspicious except /etc/sysconfig/system-config-users has ..5....T.
This tells you that the md5sum has changed, and that the modify time has changed. Unless you were changing some values there, this shouldn't be the case. I don't use the gui user applet you're refering to, but I can't imagine that it would modify this file. At least not for any sane reason.
WTF?
I'd say try again with CLI tools to rule out any gui foolishness, and try logging in with the user you create at firstboot rather than logging in with root. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
