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Re: passwords problem



Check your messages and security logs under /var/log/ for more
information.

Alon Barzilai wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> I have a linux box with slackware 3.4. kernel 2.0.34
> and until yesterday worked fine.
> yesterday, without any changes I made, I found out that I cant login.
> not from console not from telnet, nothing.
> I tried it as root and also some other users.
> 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.
> 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.
> 
> any adea ?
> 
> Alon.

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