From: harley@shr.dec.com (Harley Privitera) Subject: Re: need help with login Date: 15 Sep 1993 04:21:03 GMT
>>>>> On 14 Sep 1993 15:25:22 -0400, kims@panix.com (Sang Kim) said:
Sang> I installed Linux SLS 1.03 last night and logged in as "root"
Sang> and decided to change the /etc/passwd file and change "root" to
Sang> "kims" and change my home directory as well. I also changed my
Sang> shell to tcsh using chsh. I tried to login with "kims" but
Sang> there is a problem. It can't find tcsh. and it won't let me
Sang> log in. btw, I never set any password for "root" or "kims" and
Sang> so when I tried to logon as kims it never asked me for a
Sang> password. Is that supposed to happen? I have the disks so that
Sang> I can reinstall Linux, but I thought I'd ask here first.
Did you replace the root account with the kims account? I'd imagine
that setuid programs will stop working if the root account were to go
away or have it's uid set <> 0, and this will cause problems (for
example, login is setuid, and it doesn't work on your system anymore).
/harley