Unable to login

[Jamie B.]

I find myself unable to login to my HP-UX box at the console.

login: root
Login incorrect

It does not prompt for a password. I can access it in single user mode but I don't know what to look for. (If I wrote down everything I knew about unix I could probably fit it on a post-it note.)

This started right after I joined a domain using Likewise 5.4.

This is just a test server we have setup to test product compatibility with unix shares so I'm not opposed to reinstalling but I'm still curious what went wrong or how to attempt to address it.

[Vijaykumar_1]

(I can access it in single user mode but I don't know what to look for.)

---Probably verify the /etc/passwd file by accessing Single-user mode

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,
Go to single user mode, check all the file system may be some are 100% if all ok then as said above check the /etc/passwd file may be it corrupt.

Suraj

[Jamie B.]

/etc/passwd is present. Owner is root, permissions were -r--r--r--

I can change the password on root but it doesn't impact my ability to login (still no prompt for password).

[S. Ney]

Does your display look like:
Console Login:
- - - - - - - - - - - - Live Console - - - - -

without a prompt enter root
you should then get a prompt for password:

Console Login:
- - - - - - - - - - - - Live Console - - - - -
root
Password:

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

reinstalling the OS should not be necessary in this case.

In single user mode:

mount /usr
mount /var

# This should enable you to edit files.

bdf

See if a file system is full from the Likewise 5.4 installation.

cd /
du -k | sort -rn | more

SEP

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] my HP-UX box [...]

Not a very detailed description.

> [...] the console [...]

Not a very detailed description.

> This started right after I joined a domain
> using Likewise 5.4.

I'd say that step one would be to try to
figure out how to undo that. Never having
heard of "Likewise Open" until now, I know
nothing, but I'd say that if we're talking
about this:

http://www.likewise.com/products/likewise_open/

then I'd be asking the vendor to help.

Otherwise, booting into single-user mode and
trying to undo the "Likewise Open"
installation would be my likely path. (Or
re-installing HP-UX, which can clean up after
almost any software disaster.)


> login: root
> Login incorrect

Does this "a domain" know who "root" is?

[Torsten.]

What terminal emulator you are using?

I have seen problems with hyperterminal in the past, a wrong configuration send twice while you press the key once.

Try putty.

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Also check out /etc/securetty.
Perhaps root is not allowed to login at the 'console' you are using ?

Can you login as a 'normal' user on the console? Then after logging in, check out the tty (command: tty) and make sure that one is in the /etc/securetty.

[Ishwar_1]

Possiblity is their that your password file as gone corrupt. You can check the Password file by using command /usr/sbin/pwck

Or

Move the Current passwd file to tmp and copy new passwd file located at /usr/newconfig/etc/passwd from your system.

Hope this information Helps you

Regards
Ishwar

[madhuchakkaravarthy]

hi

if you put "root" in the /etc/securetty file then nobody could enter as root directly, not even from console. everytime he has to go as su -.

Instead if you put "console" then anybody can login as root from the console.

try to login with other user and check

regards

MC