Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 930

3 Enter the username and password for root.
4 Make all the necessary changes.
5 Boot into the full multiuser and network mode by entering telinit 5 at the
52.4.2 Valid Username and Password Not
This is by far the most common problem users encounter, because there are many reasons
this can occur. Depending on whether you use local user management and authentication
or network authentication, login failures occur for different reasons.
Local user management can fail for the following reasons:
• The user might have entered the wrong password.
• The user's home directory containing the desktop configuration files is corrupted
or write protected.
• There might be problems with the X Window System authenticating this particular
user, especially if the user's home directory has been used with another Linux dis-
tribution prior to installing the current one.
To locate the reason for a local login failure, proceed as follows:
1 Check whether the user remembered his password correctly before you start de-
2 Log in as root and check /var/log/messages for error messages of the
3 Try to log in from a console (using
930 Installation and Administration
command line.
Accepted
bugging the whole authentication mechanism. If the user might not remember
his password correctly, use the YaST User Management module to change the
user's password.
login process and of PAM.
blame cannot be put on PAM, because it is possible to authenticate this user on
this machine. Try to locate any problems with the X Window System or the
desktop (GNOME or KDE). For more information, refer to
+ + ). If this is successful, the
Ctrl Alt F1
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