Thanks for the response. > Is your uid actually 0? I don't understand ! The non-root user account's uid is 1000 and so is gid. /home/kevin is owned by kevin:kevin with uid:gid of 1000:1000 as is in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I just ran a check to ensure that, duplicate uid/gid do not exist and yes, there are no duplicate ids !! I tried running "strace login -p kevin". That didn't help me much. I'm no expert in interpreting in the output of strace. I were just looking for a file that login would open and you know something obvious, that points at the discrepancy somewhere. I'm out of ideas. Any ideas ? I'm thinking of reinstalling gentoo from scratch, unless this mystery is solved. Well, this actually is one of the two problems I have. The other one has to do with hal/dbus. I don't think that'd be resolved soon. Maybe, re-installation is good idea after all ! Thanks for any help that'd come along On Thursday 11 January 2007 09:01, Trapp, Bob wrote: > Is your uid actually 0? If your user ids are conflicting with user ids > assigned to system tools, PAM may be getting confused. > > Bob Trapp > btrapp@xxxxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: pam-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pam-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Kevin Williams > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:50 PM > To: pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Cannot login as non-root user > > I've just installed gentoo on my laptop. I can't login as a non-root > user be > it in console or X windows !! > > > Whe I try to login as a non-root user, after entering the password > here's what > I get: > ---------------------------------------- > Unable to cd to /home/kevin > Permission denied > --------------------------------------- > > Looking into the system log, I found these lines: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------ > Jan 10 23:32:44 [login] pam_tally(login:account): option deny=0 allowed > in > auth phase only > Jan 10 23:32:44 [login] pam_tally(login:account): unknown option: > no_magic_root > Jan 10 23:32:44 [login] pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user > kevin > by kevin(uid=0) > Jan 10 23:32:44 [login] unable to cd to `/home/kevin' for user `kevin'_ > Jan 10 23:32:44 [login] pam_unix(login:session): session closed for user > kevin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------- > > I've tried commenting out the lines relevant to the above messages, yet > it > made no difference. > > /home/kevin does exist and has the permissions 0755. > > I've tried creating another user account and trying to login as the new > user > results in the same error message. I'm stuck with this one, I can't work > in > gentoo until and unless this issue is fixed !! > > Here's the thread I started on forums.gentoo.org: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-530899.html > > Any help in this regard will be hghly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > Pam-list mailing list > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > > _______________________________________________ > Pam-list mailing list > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list