From: Kynaston Roger (Roger.Kynaston@lbhf.gov.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 12:18:58 EDT
Dear Managers
We have an intermittent problem on one of our 2.6 machines where random
users find that they cannot log in. When I reset the password they still
cannot log in. I am able to su to the user from a priviledged user but am
unable to login as that user.
The work around is to use usermod -u to change the uid of the user. They are
then able to log in, we seem to be getting around 3 a month of this and as
one of the users was an owner of a database, this caused us some grief.
Has anyone encountered this before and know a fix?
N.B. We have not patched this server for a while and it is stable in all
other respects.
Thanks in advance and I will summarise.
Regards
Roger
Roger Kynaston
UNIX Systems Analyst
Information Technology Services
Policy and Administration
London Borough Hammersmith & Fulham
Tel. 0208 753 2919
email: roger.kynaston@lbhf.gov.uk
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