Hey i think your init process is getting respawned ,, hmm well the reason may be your /etc/passwd file might have got corrupted. U can go in Single user mode and copy /etc/passwd.Old to /etc/passwd and then i think it should allow u to login. Let me know if this worked. Tapesh .......................................ENJOY LINUX.................. Philip S Tellis wrote:On 19 Jul 2002, Jaishankar Krishnan Iyer wrote:
The box did NOT run any firewall etc. The next day what we found was, it would NOT allow us to login at all. At the login prompt , when one tried to login as any user or even "su" it would just jump back to login prompt.
did you try to login as su or as root?
Could i get some hint as to which are the likely files which i could look into which could cause this problem. This would help us further in the penetration test which we are conducting.
have a look at your pam.d/* files. also, by removing some groups, you may have disabled logins. You'll have to experiment to find out.