Are you still unable to login as root? Have you tried booting directly into single user mode? Joshua A. Richardson General Dynamics AIS Principal Systems Engineer Systems Administrator Office: 703-272-1761 Cell: 540-383-9093 -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anne Moore Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 9:51 AM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'; Rajiv.baxi@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames! 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
