CDE and Oracle

[Jim Gridley_1]

Help, I can log into our HP9000 using root, but no longer can I log in as any other user, I need to log in as Oracle

Any ideas what may have cause this?

[RAC_1]

May possibilities..
What does following files say??

syslog.log
/var/dt/Xerrors
$HOME/.dt/errorlog

Anil

[Mark Greene_1]

Many things could have caused this.

Verify that the /etc/password file is present, intact, and has read & write permissions for owner, group, and other.

Verify that /etc/nologin does not exist.

Verity that inetd is running and the file /etc/inetd.conf is present and intact.

Then identify what changes have occured on the system recently, and retrace them to see what may have been inadvertantly affected.

mark

[Zygmunt Krawczyk]

Hi Jim,
can you login into your HP9000 using telnet session as non-root user?
Regards,
Zygmunt

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

until you find the right solution, you can just open a terminal session on the CDE (when logged on as root) and do a su - oracle

hope this helps too!

regards
Yogeeraj

[Steven E. Protter]

In the Oracle profile, make sure the DISPLAY variable is correct.

You might find useful information in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log after a failed login attempt.

SEP

[Rory R Hammond]

Jim,

based on the fact no one can log in except root.

check to see if perms on / is 555 or 755.

Rory

[Mark Greene_1]

Did I actually write that /etc/passwd should have write permissions?!?! My apologies, it should definitely have only read permissions, but for owner, group, and other (chmod 444 /etc/passwd).

mark