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Re: passwords problem



On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:

> > anyway, when I used passwd to change the password, I couldnt login
> > again.
> > note that mail (pop3) work fine for all users.
> > and 'su' when I login uas ordinary user also work fine. 

Unless you are very tired and keep mistyping the password (or have a bad
keyboard and are using a funny key in the password), someone may have
hacked you out of the system ;) 

> Maybe you changed passwd to shadow-ignorant one? 
> Does slackware use PAM? If so, it should report what happened when you

No, thank god, it hasn't ;)

> change/enter the password.