I am able to login as a user and su to root. I still have not found the reason for the problem. Well, for now I have something that works. Thanks for the help. David On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Tiemo Krueger - mycable GmbH wrote: > Hmm, I remember that we had once a similar problem, but I can't remember > the reason > nor the solution. It appeared that we where not able to login as root, > but user login was possible. > Logged in as user I was allowed to 'su' to root. > Perhaps this may be a hint, perhaps not, perhaps Bruno remembers the > solution??? > > Tiemo > > David Kesselring wrote: > > >I apologize for the many recent questions but I have another trivia > >question for all of you. :-) > >I have installed the RH7.3 miniport to a harddrive connected to a MIPS > >Malta board. The kernel the comes with the port (2.4.18) works fine. I > >then took the cvs code (2.4.22) for mips and built it for malta. The first > >few builds worked ok (which means I could logon as root). Then I changed > >something in the build process so that now the kernels which I build won't > >allow me to logon as root. I've changed /etc/passwd to eliminate the root > >pw. Does anyone know how a kernel can affect the login like this? > >Thanks, > > > >David Kesselring > >Atmel MMC > >dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com > >919-462-6587 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Tiemo Krueger Tel: +49 48 73 90 19 86 > mycable GmbH Fax: +49 48 73 90 19 76 > Boeker Stieg 43 > D-24613 Aukrug eMail: tk@mycable.de > > Public Kryptographic Key is available on request > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > David Kesselring Atmel MMC dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com 919-462-6587
