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Old 01-16-2008, 02:11 AM
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I cannot login to the local machine (console) in runlevel 3 with any user or root accounts, the prompt just displays login incorrect and clears the screen but I can login to any user or root through SSH (putty) just fine. When trying with invalid credentials, it doesn't clear the screen. Any ideas???
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Boot to the rescue CD, mount the RHEL 4 installation (meaning the drive or partition it's installed on) somewhere, chroot to that directory, then do passwd root. Reboot to the hard drive and see if that works.
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Its not an issue with the password as I can login via SSH. It turned out to be a typo in the /etc/pam.d/login file.
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