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Keeping in mind this was working before:

When I try to login as :

su jira1

I get error:

su: Authentication failure
(Ignored)

more /etc/passwd returns:

jira1:x:1003:1003:,,,:/home/jira1:/bin/bash

and if I monitor su jira1, by tailing /var/log/auth.log, I get:

Mar 15 10:43:51 jira su[4590]: Successful su for jira1 by root
Mar 15 10:43:51 jira su[4590]: + /dev/pts/1 root:jira1
Mar 15 10:43:51 jira su[4590]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user jira1 by kahmed(uid=0)
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Have you tried changing the passwd for that user? – LnxSlck Mar 15 '12 at 14:55
yes and solved, although not sure if that would resolve the application startup error – kamal Mar 15 '12 at 15:09
Please post the solution to your problem as an answer. – bodhi.zazen Mar 15 '12 at 18:34
If @LnxSlck has solved your problem, mark that answer as the accepted one with the checkmark next to it. – ObsessiveSSOℲ Jun 13 '12 at 20:22

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It seems that changing the password for the user solved the problem

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