Which shell are you using? Check the contents of the applicable .[login] files for something which might be inhibiting login completion.
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, terry white wrote:
... ciao: : "Marshall Lake" : Possibly a permissions problem. drwxr-x--- 27 twhite twhite 3072 2011-06-13 07:03 twhite drwxr-x--- 8 t.white t.white 1024 2011-06-09 03:58 t.white drwx------ 2 ups ups 1024 2009-10-18 13:35 ups drwxr-x--- 20 wd0fpc wd0fpc 2048 2011-06-13 04:50 wd0fpc : Can you su into a user from the root login? yes : "Markus Koßmann" : hard disk full ? no. 38% free space : "Yuri Rodrigues Braz" : A possible reason is that exists the file /etc/nologin ls: cannot access /etc/nologin: No such file or directory : "Herta Van den Eynde" : E.g., "ls -ld /", "ls -ld /home/". drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 3072 2011-06-13 07:28 / drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 1024 2011-06-06 05:07 /home/ : "Ben Kevan" : What login method are you utiizing? from a local machine, into root, then su 'user' ... -- ... it's not what you see , but in stead , notice ...
-- Marshall Lake -- mlake@xxxxxxxxx -- http://www.mlake.net
