On Thursday 15 April 2004, matthew at jacklemon.com (Matt Lemon) wrote:
>Hi,
>>I have a big problem. The server that my company uses to store profiles and
mail files on refuses to
>let anyone (including root) login. After trawling through the log I quickly
saw that the / partition
>was out of space. I removed some files that weren't needed and restarted the
machine.
>>It starts but if I look in Webmin, there are no users listed and it still
won't let anyone login. I
>started the box in single user mode and checked the disk space and there is
definitely space free
>now.
>>Anyone come across this before ? I really don't want to crack open the CD's
:-(
Well, I guess cracking open a CD may be in your future but not in the Windows
style knee jerk reinstallation mode - rather to boot the system so you can
mount the current system disk and have a look around. You need to establish
why nobody can login. Is the password or shadow file perhaps missing ? What
error messages you you get when you try to login? Do you even get a login
prompt? (I guess you do, as you'd surely have reported that) Can you ssh in
from another computer?
Niall
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