[KLUG Members] Disabled logins

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I was playing with login permissions a while back on my Red Hat 7.1
>system and somehow disabled all user logins except for root.  When I
>try to login is a regular user, from the console, the command shell is
>briefly displayed, then I am logged out.  When I try to su from root
>to a regular user I receive the message "could not open session".  Since
>I did this some time ago I just can't remember what I did.  Any help
>would be greatly appreciated.

Does /etc/nologin exist?  If so remove it.

Systems and Network Administrator
Morrison Industries
1825 Monroe Ave NW.
Grand Rapids, MI. 49505