When user login into solaris 8 it is repeatedly asking for user name and password.What could be the reason and what files has to be checked to fix this and which log file we have to refer to know more details about the problem?

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ehp_praveen

  • May 17th, 2006
 

Hi,Let me know error message if you are getting any.There are two reasons1) user does not exists.2) user is exist but passwd is null.

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rkarunmozhi

  • May 18th, 2006
 

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

The user is exisitng in the /etc/passwd file and the shell is also properly configured and there is no specific error messages in the /var/adm/messages file.

-Arunmozhi

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Samir

  • Jun 22nd, 2006
 

check if utmpx file has been deleted?

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SSP

  • Dec 27th, 2006
 

Check the disk quota set to user ID, Sometime If the disk quota exceeds then you will face this kind of problems

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Guest

  • Jan 17th, 2007
 

Hi ,

Let me know how exactlythe user is logging into the system

1) Can the user able to login into the system through the console ?

2)Is the user trying to login into the GUI mode.

Aslso you can try synchronizing password file and shadow file.

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