Hello, Are you getting anything in your system logs? /var/log There may be some clues in those logs? Assuming you have a way to view the logs. Good luck Steve Stephen L. LaBelle Metropolitan State College of Denver Senior System Administrator Database Administration Team Information Technology Infrastructure Services labelles@xxxxxxxx 303-556-3644 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richardson, Joshua A." <Joshua.Richardson@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:17 am Subject: RE: Help! Red hat doesn't recognize any usernames! To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>, Rajiv.baxi@xxxxxxxxxxx > Are you still unable to login as root? Have you tried booting > directlyinto 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
