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Re: passwords problem



On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 10:21:22AM +0200, Alon Barzilai wrote:
> hi,
> 
> yesterday, without any changes I made, I found out that I cant login.

That is wrong. You made changes. Unless Jesus or the Lubavicher or Aytollah
Ovadya helped...

> not from console not from telnet, nothing.
> so I boot from diskettes and changed the root password in passwd file to
> nothing. ( the passwords are not in the passwd file, but there is and
> 'x' so I removed it.

You have enabled shadow passwords. Please disable them.

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