[lug] Conundrum

[J. Wayde Allen]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Shannon Johnston wrote:

> A colleague of mine has thrown himself into quite a predicament. He's
> setting up a box capable of SSH-ing into our network and he's managed to
> almost lock himself out. We can log in as root (both from the keyboard and
> SSH) but attempting to login as a regular user has produced the following
> message:
> 
> failed forked: resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> Peeking into the secure log I find this.
> 
> May  2 11:37:09 pandora  -- lupy[2433]: LOGIN ON tty1 BY lupy

But ... are you sure that you really want to open pandora's box?

Sorry - couldn't resist <grin>.

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)