Unable to login to my system!

[Robert Davis]

Fixed.  The problem turned out to be a bug in my login script (a fix
recommended by a vendor for a bug in their browser!).

Felix, 
No, root cannot log in through the login manager screen.  Not
allowed. 

Denis,
Yes, the machine is on a network, but for security reasons I usually
keep telnet access turned off except when I'm using it myself, and
I had never gotten around to setting up ssh access, which would be
more secure and, thus, okay to leave on.  I _was_ able to remotely
mount the problem machine to a functional machine and I should've
been able to fix it that way. However, I missed one of the two bugs
I had introduced into my login script.


I fixed it by first backing up everything important in my account,
then doing a bare-bones re-install of YDL, being careful not to
re-initialize any partitions. During the install I added a new user
with a default account setup.  At that point, I was able to log in
using the new account, "su" to root and fix my login file. 

Highly recommended:  1) A second, emergency account that you can log
in to if your login gets hosed.  2) SSH access turned on.

Thanks to both you guys for your suggestions,

Robert



On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:55:31 -0500
Felix Jodoin <felixj@shaw.ca> wrote:

> can root log in? B.T.W, I'm only mentioning this because of mac os
> x's unix core, but It would appear that my machine is screwed up
> too, by the way of my user account but root's account works
> fine... [B.t.w, If I don't respond, that's why, sry] am I being
> hacked???-AliasN
> 
> On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 12:08  PM, Robert Davis wrote:
> 
> > Hi People,
> >
> > Tried to log in to my system today and could not get past
> > the login screen.  Told me to check out the .xsessions
> > log.  Here's what it said.....
> >
> > id: error while loading shared libraries: 
> > /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/lib/ppc: cannot read file data: Error 21
> > id: error while loading shared libraries: 
> > /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/lib/ppc: cannot read file data: Error 21
> > id: error while loading shared libraries: 
> > /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/lib/ppc: cannot read file data: Error 21
> > -/bin/bash: line 12: [: too many arguments
> > trackpad: error while loading shared libraries: 
> > /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/lib/ppc: cannot read file data: Error 21
> > /usr/bin/ssh-agent: error while loading shared libraries: 
> > /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/lib/ppc: cannot read file data: Error 21
> >
> > I'm hoping I can re-install my jre if I can just get logged in.
> > I have the YDL 3.0 CD's.  Can anyone help me get myself logged
> > in to my system?  BTW, it's a Powerbook 233 running MacOS 9.1 on
> > the other partition
> > if that helps any.
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can offer,
> >
> > Robert
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