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From: pj@giraffe.asd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: HELP! Users can't log
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.062322.27034@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 06:23:22 GMT
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In article <9009271607.AA21257@focci01.wirz.cigy>, deyrau@ciba-geigy.ch (Dipl agr
Veronique Eyraud) writes:
|> 
|> I can log on the machine as root, butanybody else gets thrown away.
|> No explanation in the console or SYSLOG.
|> I have checked
|> 	the password file (yp used successfuly on another machine)
|> 	the login directories are there and accessible
|> 	the /etc/cshrc, .cshrc and .login (we are running the csh)

1) Does logining in NOGRAPHICS work?  To try it, place the word
   NOGRAPHICS after your login id, as in:

		login: joeblow NOGRAPHICS

2) Check that each file known to /etc/getty and /bin/login seem ok.
   To see what files these commands know of, as root run the command

		strings - /etc/getty /bin/login | grep / > sometempfile

   Then for each path listed in `sometempfile', examine the named file,
   perhaps comparing it with the similar file on a working machine.
   Do the permissions, sizes, and (if directory or text file) contents
   seem similar or reasonable?

3) If inquiring further about this, let us know what release.
-- 

				Thanks, take care ...
				Paul Jackson (pj@asd.sgi.com), x1373