[CentOS] did CentOS x86 5.3 migrate to another hard drive, but console login keeps prompting even with correct password

[Alexander Dalloz]

> Hi!
> check perms on /tmp
> for example chown -R root.root /tmp & chmod 777 /tmp

Don't chown everything under /tmp to root:root!
Don't chmod /tmp to 777!

chown root:root /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp

Alexander