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
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.
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Jerry Feldman
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