Check the permission on directories / and /home. If the login kevin does not have the proper access permissions will cause the problem. The login program is running as root (uid=0) when you are prompted for the login name and password. Once you have answered the password correctly the login program will do a setuid(1000) in your case and then try to change directory. So if / or /home had permissions of say drwxr-x---, the cd will fail because uid 1000 does not have permission to read the directory. Jack Allen -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Williams [mailto:kevkim55@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:21 PM To: Pluggable Authentication Modules Subject: Re: Cannot login as non-root user Apologize for the misunderstanding. I really missed the "uid=0" from the log output !! I'm really surprised, why would the uid be zero when I am trying to login as non-root user ?? I double checkd /etc/passwd and /etc/group and found that root user has both uid and gid set to 0 and non-root user's (kevin) account has uid and gid set to 1000. I haven't got a clue whats going wrong !! I'd really appreciate any response in this regard. Thanks Kevin 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 _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
