Hi Rodrigo, *, Am 10.09.2013 22:39 schrieb Rodrigo Rivas:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier < damokles4-listen@bits-fritz.de> wrote:
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After setting up a new user I cannot login to it's account on the virtual console.
I get:
Login incorrect
No matter whether password is set or not
# passwd -S <user>: <user> P ... # password set <user> NP ... # password not set
login as root works with and without password set (both times unset by deleting the /etc/shadow passwd entry).
this also occured on another box currently installed - latter one a x86_64
user was added through
# useradd -m -g <group> <user>
password was set through
# passwd user
changing user from root via sudo or su works, as does login via xdm. login via lxdm and gdm doesn't, if that is of any help.
If I do the same on my box writing this mail from (x86_64 - all updates included) everything works as expected.
Couldn't find anything at the bugtracker.
Before digging deeper my question: Any known issues or ideas on that?
This looks to me like a problem with PAM.
happily this wasn't the reason :o)).
It is difficult to guess more without more information. You can try: "journalctl -b | grep pam" and post the output.
There were some: login[346]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM tty1 FOR <user>, Authentication failure entries which don't enlighten too much.
Other than that, you can try reinstalling all the PAM related packages, just in case there is some file missing. From my machine:
$ pacman -Qoq /etc/security /etc/pam.d | sort cronie cups gcr gdm gnome-screensaver jack libpwquality openssh pam pambase polkit postgresql screen shadow sudo util-linux
thanks for this hint. Tagged this mail as "tip" :o)) Friedrich