[Fwd: RedHat 9.0 login problem]

From: Adriaan Pelzer (adriaan_at_trispen.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:03:51 +0200

Hi,

I'm building a flash-based system from scratch using a RedHat 9.0
development installation as base. I'm using grub, kernel 2.4.20, init,
login. It boots up to a login prompt, but when I enter "root", it
immediately logs "login failed" about four times to the console, without

giving a password prompt. It then returns to the login prompt.
I've included passwd, shadow, nsswitch.conf (everything local file),
pam.conf (everything to pam_permit.so).

Anyone got any ideas?

Thank you

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:00:09 +0200

Hi,

I'm building a flash-based system from scratch using a RedHat 9.0
development installation as base. I'm using grub, kernel 2.4.20, init,
login. It boots up to a login prompt, but when I enter "root", it
immediately logs "login failed" about four times to the console, without
giving a password prompt. It then returns to the login prompt.
I've included passwd, shadow, nsswitch.conf (everything local file),
pam.conf (everything to pam_permit.so).

Anyone got any ideas?

Thank you

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