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PCC322
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 Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 6:53 am Post subject: [solved] user password not working despite several resets |
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I have been unable to log into my non-root user account despite resetting the password several times from root. I just receive messages about login incorrect. I am not having any such problem logging in to root.
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fedeliallalinea
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What return command grep <username> /etc/passwd? You can login from root with su - <username>?
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PCC322
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| fedeliallalinea wrote: | | What return command grep <username> /etc/passwd? You can login from root with su - <username>? |
it is returning
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name:x:1000:1000::/home/name:/bin/bash/
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Cannot execute /bin/bash/: Not a directory
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freke
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| Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:36 am Post subject: |
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| PCC322 wrote: | | fedeliallalinea wrote: | | What return command grep <username> /etc/passwd? You can login from root with su - <username>? |
it is returning
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name:x:1000:1000::/home/name:/bin/bash/
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Cannot execute /bin/bash/: Not a directory
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Shouldn't that be | Code: | | name:x:1000:1000::/home/name:/bin/bash |
ie. pointing to a file instead of a dir |
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PCC322
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| Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| freke wrote: | | PCC322 wrote: | | fedeliallalinea wrote: | | What return command grep <username> /etc/passwd? You can login from root with su - <username>? |
it is returning
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name:x:1000:1000::/home/name:/bin/bash/
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is returning:
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Cannot execute /bin/bash/: Not a directory
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Shouldn't that be | Code: | | name:x:1000:1000::/home/name:/bin/bash |
ie. pointing to a file instead of a dir |
I took out the last slash (backslash maybe?), both su and the normal log in are working now. This seems very strange as I had not touched /etc/passwd previously |
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| PCC322 wrote: | | I took out the last slash (backslash maybe?), both su and the normal log in are working now. This seems very strange as I had not touched /etc/passwd previously |
Probably when you created user with useradd command
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