05-31-2005
Root account disabled and unable to access console
Hi, hope someone could help me here:
Our root account was disabled on our production server this morning and usually we would login at the console to re-enable the account. However we are unable to get a login prompt at the console. The console displays the 8 options along the bottom and a cursor but no login prompt. We are able to login via telnet sessions but not as root.
I have tried holding down the 'd' key while switching the console on and the "Remote Mode" option has a '*' next to it. There is a console getty process running but I am unable to kill this as it is owned as root:
root 2796 1 0 May 25 console 0:00 /usr/sbin/getty console console
Can anyone advise how this can be resolved? Ideally we would like to get the console issue resolved first as we will need root access to shut down the applications running on the machine prior to any rebooting.
We are running HP-UX 11.00 on an L2000.
Thanks.
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pam_sepermit
PAM_SEPERMIT(8) Linux-PAM Manual PAM_SEPERMIT(8)
NAME
pam_sepermit - PAM module to allow/deny login depending on SELinux enforcement state
SYNOPSIS
pam_sepermit.so [debug] [conf=/path/to/config/file]
DESCRIPTION
The pam_sepermit module allows or denies login depending on SELinux enforcement state.
When the user which is logging in matches an entry in the config file he is allowed access only when the SELinux is in enforcing mode.
Otherwise he is denied access. For users not matching any entry in the config file the pam_sepermit module returns PAM_IGNORE return value.
The config file contains a list of user names one per line with optional arguments. If the name is prefixed with @ character it means that
all users in the group name match. If it is prefixed with a % character the SELinux user is used to match against the name instead of the
account name. Note that when SELinux is disabled the SELinux user assigned to the account cannot be determined. This means that such
entries are never matched when SELinux is disabled and pam_sepermit will return PAM_IGNORE.
See sepermit.conf(5) for details.
OPTIONS
debug
Turns on debugging via syslog(3).
conf=/path/to/config/file
Path to alternative config file overriding the default.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
The auth and account module types are provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_AUTH_ERR
SELinux is disabled or in the permissive mode and the user matches.
PAM_SUCCESS
SELinux is in the enforcing mode and the user matches.
PAM_IGNORE
The user does not match any entry in the config file.
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
The module was unable to determine the user's name.
PAM_SERVICE_ERR
Error during reading or parsing the config file.
FILES
/etc/security/sepermit.conf
Default configuration file
EXAMPLES
auth [success=done ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_sepermit.so
auth required pam_unix.so
account required pam_unix.so
session required pam_permit.so
SEE ALSO
sepermit.conf(5), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(8)selinux(8)
AUTHOR
pam_sepermit and this manual page were written by Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>.
Linux-PAM Manual 06/18/2013 PAM_SEPERMIT(8)