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Re: Password problems



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Try checking your PAM config.  Did you change config files while upgrading?  
If so there is a good chance that md5 passwords were enabled but now are not.

- --Warren 


On Saturday 03 February 2001 21:37, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 10:02:23PM -0500, Keith & Cecile Schooley wrote:
> > This is going to sound like an asinine problem, but here goes ...
> >
> > My machine seems to have forgotten my password.
> >
> > Yes, I said my machine.  Not me.  I've had it burned into my
> > consciousness, through booting up about a hundred times (successfully)
> > today.
> >
> > I finally got a problem with getting my video card recognized, but when I
> > tried to log back in, I couldn't get in either by my user name or as
> > root.
> >
> > Any suggestions on why this would happen?
> >
> > Is there any possible way to deal with this, other than to reinstall the
> > whole system?
> >
> > Grace and peace,
>
>     I've had that happen with xdm before, and it was fine after a reboot.
> Is it xdm? Can you get into a virtual terminal?
>
>     Mike

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