[lug] Conundrum

[Shannon Johnston]

We found it out. There was a quota of 0 set for all users. That stopped it
up pretty good.

Shannon

On Wed, 2 May 2001, J. Wayde Allen wrote:

> 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)
> 
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