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Operating Systems Solaris unable to login Solaris 10 Post 302496527 by Sol-nova on Monday 14th of February 2011 10:03:12 AM
Old 02-14-2011
OK, so i got into the server, it is a T2000 btw.

Single user mode gets me in ok, and i can mount all zfs drives etc. I noticed the authlog is about 60Mb+ and logadm hasnt run for about 15 months, and no one noticed.... (disclaimer, i only came to this a few weeks ago).

The authlog shows a load of cron auth errors for the root cron.

I created a test user in single user mode and set up the password, rebooted and tried to login as the new user, this failed, same problem as the root user, just get back to the login prompt with no error message.

There is also plenty of space on the drive, so its not a disk full problem. The hostname.[interface] file seems to have vanished, im sure it was there before, which explains why the server now refers to itself as 'unknown'.

Im beginning to think there may be a problem with the login scripts? does this sound viable? Any other ideas are welcomed as im stumped!
 

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sulogin(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       sulogin(1M)

NAME
sulogin - access single-user mode SYNOPSIS
sulogin DESCRIPTION
The sulogin utility is automatically invoked by init when the system is first started. It prompts the user to type the root password to enter system maintenance mode (single-user mode) or to type EOF (typically <CTRL-D>) for normal startup (multi-user mode). The user should never directly invoke sulogin. The sulogin utility can prompt the user to enter the root password on a variable number of serial console devices, in addition to the tra- ditional console device. See consadm(1M) and msglog(7D) for a description of how to configure a serial device to display the single-user login prompt. FILES
/etc/default/sulogin Default value can be set for the following flag: PASSREQ Determines if login requires a password. Default is PASSREQ=YES. /etc/default/login Default value can be set for the following flag: SLEEPTIME If present, sets the number of seconds to wait before login failure is printed to the screen and another login attempt is allowed. Default is 4 seconds. Minimum is 0 seconds. Maximum is 5 seconds. Both su(1M) and login(1) are affected by the value of SLEEPTIME. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
login(1), consadm(1M), init(1M), su(1M), attributes(5), msglog(7D) SunOS 5.10 25 Sep 2002 sulogin(1M)
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