Can't login as normal user

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denise · #1 Post by **denise** » 2004-04-08 10:03

I've got everthing up and working again. But when I want to login as a normal user (in gdm) I'm send back to the login screen.
When I want to log in as root I dont get this problem.

Please help. I don't want to login as root when I want to use my system for normal things.

MarkvD · #2 Post by **MarkvD** » 2004-04-08 10:27

This sounds like a permission problem to me try:

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# chown -R <username>.<groupname>

in the home directory of the normal user.

lacek · #3 Post by **lacek** » 2004-04-08 10:48

Also, check if the file /etc/nologin is not present. It will prevent regular users from logging in if it is there.

MarkvD · #4 Post by **MarkvD** » 2004-04-08 11:01

lacek wrote:Also, check if the file /etc/nologin is not present. It will prevent regular users from logging in if it is there.

I never heart about this file what is the purpose of it?
And do you have an example of how it looks?

denise · #5 Post by **denise** » 2004-04-08 11:08

Thank you for the fast replies.

The /etc/nologin file is not present on my system.
It was a permisions problem,
# chown -R <username>.<groupname>.
Solved the problem

Thanks again

lacek · #6 Post by **lacek** » 2004-06-22 14:35

root wrote:
lacek wrote:Also, check if the file /etc/nologin is not present. It will prevent regular users from logging in if it is there.
I never heart about this file what is the purpose of it?
And do you have an example of how it looks?

The /etc/nologin file is used to indicate that the system bootup is in process. While this file is present only root can login to the system.
This rule is enforced by the pam_nologin.so library required by 'auth' in pam.d/login.
Anyway, it is a simple file removed by the 'rmnologin' startup script.