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- From: syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
- Subject: Re: Login failure
- Message-ID: <syscrc.721408334@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: Georgia State University
- References: <34008@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:12:14 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- bclark@wankle.ctron.com (Bret Clark) writes:
-
- >>I have a user who cannot log in directly to one of our Iris 4Ds
- >>running 4.0.1. He tries, the screen blanks for a moment, and then
- >>he's back at the login menu. (Even with no password, he fails.)
- >>All other logins, on that machine or by that user, succeed. He
- >>has a pretty boring .login and .cshrc. Any clues?
- >
- >
- >I have just starting seeing the problem Iris INDIGO. It appears to be with the
- >program pandora. I have not been able to track it down. .login and .chsrc has
- >nothing to do with the problem. The only solution I have been able to find is
- >to disable visual login under /etc/config/visuallogin or to reformat and reload
- >the OS (Not a great fix).
- >
- >I am interested in knowing of a fix as well.
- >
- >Bret Clark
- >Mail Address: bclark@ctron.com
-
- We have noticed the problem with first-time logins when the password aging
- feature is enabled. A first-time login will not work from the graphics
- monitor, but it will from a tty or over the network. This is the case with
- Irix 3.3 and 4.0.
-
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