Hi Rajiv, It's Red Hat Enterprise 4, and it's local Authentication. (No Ldap.) It's bizarre, really. After it crashed, it came up, but doesn't recognize any usernames at all. I did a repair, and looked at the /etc/passwd file and it was fine. It seems the system cannot read from the file. I checked permissions, reset them, on that and the shadow file, and still, the system cannot recognize logons. Is there a daemon that is used for this that may not be starting up? Thanks Anne -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen Chen Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:48 AM To: Rajiv.baxi@xxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames! Rajiv.baxi@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Are you able to boot to a Redhat CD? > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Anne Moore" <diabeticithink@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:49:05 > To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'<redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames! > > Hi All, > > My server crashed. Now when I boot it up, just about all > services/daemons that depend on any username, won't start because it > doesn't recognize the username. I can also no longer logon as root or > any other username because Red Hat doesn't recognize that the "user exists." > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot or fix this very odd > issue? My entire server is down because of it, which means 450 people > can not logon to my network. > > I've fixed the file system, and now it has no errors. The Haldaemon > won't start, nor the message bus, or atd, or many others. > > Thank you for your help! > > Anne > > which authentication do you use? local password or ldap server? what version of Redhat? Allen -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
