Can't log in to PC...playing w/ LDAP
 

I messed up my sign in to my RH8 PC because I was messing around with OpenLDAP. I had setup up a test LDAP server and client pc, now I can't get into the PC. Error is 'Authentication Failed'. I can still log in to the the test server.

How can I undo the sign on issue on my PC to log on locally again?


any ideas?

Thanks,

Vince

which user are you trying to log in as? Have you tried another user account?

I used a regular user account and root.

I resolved the problem by correcly setting up the test LDAP server. I was able to log in and change the settings.

But I still wouldn't know how to reset the password authentication from the client station itself.

thanks for the reply,

Vince

Hi vdi_nenna,

perhaps it is outtimed, but you can boot your client with your first redhat cd.

You will find yourselve logged as root into a Linux, that has your old filesystem mounted at /mnt/sysimage.
There you can manually reset the system-auth.

I read somewhere, that any bootable Linux-CD / disc / ... would do this job. Knoppix, or whatever you can find...

Good Luck,
Clemens von Musil