Re: yikes! i've fixed it! but how?
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:02:26PM -0500, nick phillips wrote:
> me again,
>
> so i think i've fixed the problem by escaping the login (fn+F5) then running
> XF86Setup, loading in my original configuration, and resaving it. then when
> i ran startx, everything works ok, all original passwords work fine. when i
> reboot, all is ok. but i'd still like to now how i did it! what did i do to
> render my old passwords invalid?
Well, I guess my reply was a few minutes late ;)
I've had this happen to my own machine, after someone changed the root
password by editing /etc/passwd. I think [xkg]dm use a different process
for accessing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow than does login, and if
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow both contain password hashes for a
particular user (instead of /etc/passwd showing an 'x' and /etc/shadow
showing the hash as per normal,) then one or the other password will
work, depending on whether you are logging in from X or text console.
HTH,
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