"connection closed" message after login

[trystan macdonald]

Hi,

I have a user who is thrown out straight after logging in. I have checke /etc/passwd and all looks well. This is a 10.20 machine.

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks,
Trystan.

[T G Manikandan]

check the initialization file of the user.

.profile for sh and ksh
.login and .cshrc for csh

whether anything like exit or logout is there.
Also check the /etc/profile file of /etc/csh.login file whether there is any script like for restricting the number of user logins.

Thanks

[Christopher McCray_1]

hello,

What shell is listed for his entry?

Look in the user's .profile (.cshrc) for an "exit 0" or "exit 1" or so forth.

Check that ther is a .profile or .cshrc, .login.

Hope this helps

Chris

[U.SivaKumar_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As root do this
#cd /home/thatuser/
#cp /dev/null .sh_history

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[T G Manikandan]

This could also be for the number of telnet sessions reached its maximum.

You can check the current value of nstrpty on the kernel.


ALso check the number of telnet sessions.
#w|wc -l
should give you the number of telnet sessions.

If they are equal then must increase the value of nstrpty in your kernel.


Thanks

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

As root do this
#cd /home/thatuser/
#cp /dev/null .sh_history
#cp .profile .profile.bak
#cp /etc/profile .profile
#chmod +x .profile
#chown thatuser .profile

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[trystan macdonald]

We are using .profile (ksh) and when the user logs in, it gets as far as "checking disk quotas" and then the connection is closed.

If I log in as another user and then "su - username" then I get the follopwing message: Memory fault.

[T G Manikandan]

Just check the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file for the errors which can tell you the real reason

Revert

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Trystan,

Check quota's for user.

# quota -v username

Think he reached his hard limit.

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Paul Sperry]

Go into sam
Accounts for Users adn Groups
Users
High light user
Actions ==> Modify Security Policies
General User Account Policies...

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Trystan,

There's probably a command in that users .profile that's kicking out that memory fault error. Is it creating a core file in the user's home dir?
If so run the file command against it to determine what's causing the core dump.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Chris Vail]

Try commenting out the quotas command in the .profile. This probably means the user is over quota.




Chris