Hi All, I'm having a problem with my computer running suse 10.0. I have it set up so that if it has been sitting for a while you need to enter your password to get back into the computer. It has been working fine for months, but all of a sudden yesterday when I went to get back on. I put in my password and it came back with a message that says "permissions on database may be to restrictive" and will not let me sign back into the computer. Any ideas? thanks, bob
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 16:01:03 -0600 Bob Schmidt <bob58523@charter.net> wrote:
I'm having a problem with my computer running suse 10.0. I have it set up so that if it has been sitting for a while you need to enter your password to get back into the computer. It has been working fine for months, but all of a sudden yesterday when I went to get back on. I put in my password and it came back with a message that says "permissions on database may be to restrictive" and will not let me sign back into the computer. Check the following.
The ownership of the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and /etc/group files should be root. The permission for passwd should be rw-r--r (and group). The permission for shadow should be rw-r passwd should be in root group, and shadow in shadow group. The /etc directory would be rwxr-xr-x Owned by root and in root group. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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