login fails

[Maurice Peterse]

Hello,

when i boot a system, it finally asks to login, but after the username it keeps returning
with the q for username.
I've booted it in single mode, but can't find anything wrong

what setting does this?

thanx
m

[MARTINACHE]

In order to have more informations, can you try to boot your system normally and run a remsh which execute for example xterm from an other server.

remsh server_name -n "xterm"

If this worked, maybe you will see what's going wrong from inside.

If needed, edit your .rhost file to enable rlogin and remsh when under single user mode.

Patrice.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Even for root?

[Maurice Peterse]

yes, even for root

enter username: "root" enter

enter username:

that's it

[Vincente Fernandes]

There can be chance of "/usr/bin" corrupt, or the binaries login, passwd, telnetd etc. Try doing an rlogin from another server.

[Maurice Peterse]

rlogin doesn't work
and the usr/bin and the rest r fine

:/

we're gonna rebuild the system, just to be sure

thanx for your input all!!