terry white wrote: > i'm not seeing anything mentioned in the logs with regard to failed > normal user login. i'm at a loss as to where i might start looking. > > any thoughts, suggestion would be much appreciated ... Once you've tried the obvious possibilities, a systematic approach is to log in as root, then run e.g.: strace -f -o login.txt login twhite and analyse the resulting file for clues as to where it's going wrong. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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