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I have a cluster consists of 4 computers..These computers were working well before 2 months,and for last 2 months they were switched off .
When I switched them on again they (all) refuse the password and I get "unable to authenticate the user" every time I try to login to any one of them ...!!
I used the terminal (alt+ctrl+F2) to make sure that the password is correct and it was ..!!
Then I added new user and it couldn't authenticate the new user too..!
So, Where is the problem ?
What I have to do to be able to login again ??
So you are having issues logging into the GUI because you can login to the terminal.
Are you receiving an error when you try to login to the GUI?
Which X environment are you using?
Have you tried to reinstall the X environment?
What about deleting the x config files for the user accounts that are unable to login? For gnome this should be /home/<username>/.gconf and for KDE it will be stored in /home/<username>/.kde/share/config/
Have you perhaps done a yum update or even a yum upgrade recently? I believe that a recent change in Fedora 12 blocks GUI logins for the root account and if you have performed any updates this maybe the reason.
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