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eykyn17
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unable to login ordinary account on CDE

Hello Mentors,
I'm new from this furom and have only intermediate knowledge on Unix.
I have a problem with our unix box its HPC8000 running on HPUX 11.11 OS. The ordinary account "users" cannot login to CDE it will automatically close upon login in and return to login prompt but if i use the root account no problem at all i tried issuing command ps -eaf | grep echo then this is the result:
root 3825 3797 0 21:51:43 ? 0:00 /sbin/sh -c echo 'not sourcing //.profile (see //.dtprofile)';

When i kill this one it will close and the login prompt appear. Some of our station dont have this process.

Hope to have your response.

thanks,
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Rick Garland
Honored Contributor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

Under the particular users $HOME is a directory .dt

~$HOME/.dt

Inside this directory is an errorlog file. Check the contents and see if any clues are present.

Rick Garland
Honored Contributor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

Under the particular users $HOME is a directory .dt

~$HOME/.dt

Inside this directory is an errorlog file. Check the contents and see if any clues are present.

Also check some of the other log files, ie, startlog.
eykyn17
Advisor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE


I will update you the logs
thanks Rick
Joseph C. Denman
Honored Contributor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

I suspect a permission issue somewhere? If you works and users don't, there is usually a permission issue somewhere.

...jcd...
If I had only read the instructions first??
eykyn17
Advisor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

we actually have NIS, all users are authenticated through NIS server. Only this statation had a problem. I haven't seen any logs related to login locally but i saw on the NIS server which is no problem. It might be permission issue but what is the particullar files that used this to login

any ideas
Joseph C. Denman
Honored Contributor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

I would probably start with /etc/passwd. Ensure the shell is correct. Can you telnet to the server? How far do you get in a telnet?

...jcd...
If I had only read the instructions first??
rariasn
Honored Contributor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

Verify DNS configuration and /etc/hosts in server and PC client.

rgs,
ran
Joseph C. Denman
Honored Contributor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

raraisn is correct. CDE is very sensitive to DNS resolution. I have seen the permissions being incorrect on the nsswitch.conf and/or resolv.conf cause this type of behavior.

...jcd...
If I had only read the instructions first??
Rick Garland
Honored Contributor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

In /usr/contrib/bin/X11 is a file called 'dr_dt'

Run this script and review the WARNINGS and ERRORS. This can provide some clues
eykyn17
Advisor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

guys thanks for all your response this forum really help me. Thanks
Joseph C. Denman
Honored Contributor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

Did you get your problem solved??????? What was the solution?

...jcd...
If I had only read the instructions first??
eykyn17
Advisor

Re: unable to login ordinary account on CDE

due to time constrain I just use the ignite. Since the users has a lots od deadline on his workloads.

Thank you for all your support. I really appreciate it in fact I documented all your response in case this will happen again