Cannot login to machine in multiuser mode after upgrade from a Redhat 6.x based system. I have a dual processor system, 2 Celeron 400, Abit BP6 m/b, 192mb RAM, Adaptec aha1540CP scsi, isa modem, 3COM pci nic, Nvidia agp 32mb TNT2 video, 8.4gb eide disk. When I try to login after a successful upgrade, it flashes something like invalid passwd and won't let root or anyone else login. It shuts incoming telnet out before can login, and rlogins too. Rlogin message: [tom@red-dwarf tom]$ rlogin beowulf Password: Authentication service cannot retrieve user credentials rlogin: connection closed. ----- I can login in Single User mode, tried to change passwd, not fixed upon reboot into multiuser. THIS IS A MAJOR UPGRADE BUG! Check your support forums. I also see people getting this with a new install and also upgrading from 5.x to 6.x. Please let me know the fix?
This is most likely a problem with authconfig. If the system reboots then the installer was successful. Reassigning bug.
I am having this same problem after upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0. The upgrade died at about 95% the first time(in x mode). I re-ran in text mode and it completed. However, now it will accept a username but never asks for a password and the screen clears and gives the login prompt again. Telnet never gives a login prompt, only prints out the server sig. SSH refuses all connections as well as samba, but ftp and email logins still work. Several other problems on upgrade: I was missing some required libraries (libgd for apache, I reinstalled it from an RPM and finally got apache up) There were several errors about renaming files during the upgrade. Samba config files were completely overwritten. Basically the server is up and running serving html and email just fine, but no logins are allowed. The only type of administration I can do is with Webmin (thank god for that!)
I fixed the problem! (for me at least) /etc/pam.d/login no longer existed. It was renamed as login.rpmsave. I used webmin file manger to rename the file 'login' and it worked fine (not even a reboot needed). This seems to be a problem with the installer renaming the file and then never saving the original file.
authconfig doesn't touch /etc/pam.d/login; this particular problem must be occurring elsewhere. Please see if applying the PAM update candidate in http://people.redhat.com/nalin/test/ fixes this.
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