Could you also check your /etc/shells? On 6/13/11, terry white <twhite@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... ciao: > > : on "6-12-2011" "Billy Crook" writ: > : Computers are deterministic machines. Nothing happens 'all of > : the sudden'. > > "all of a sudden, i am only able to login as root. this is not > something i was trying to accomplish, and at a loss in figuring out > how i did." > > perhaps, in context, 'all of a sudden' makes more sense. CLEARLY, my > problem is the direct result of something i did. not to make too fine a > point of it, it is possible to make a configuration change, and have the > results of that change, show up much later. its appearance seems > 'sudden' and the 'root' cause, may not be immediately obvious. > > i would even hazard the observation that a cron event, 'sudden'. > > > : See if setting a user's shell to something else (csh, ksh, zsh, ash) > : makes a difference. > > changed to 'csh' with same result. > > > : And I hope to got you're using TLS on smtp. > > i am at a complete loss in understanding 'how' TLS relevant. > > > : Which logs have you checked so far? > > syslog*, kernel*, messages*, wtmp*, btmp, secure* ... > > > -- > ... it's not what you see , > but in stead , notice ... > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Sent from my mobile device -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
