Hope somenody can help here.

I have installed RH9, and have also installed tons of additional packages and software.

I just finished setting up SAMBA, and am having loads of problems. I can no longer login as root, or as any other user. A message keep saying that my username or password is incorrect. Since I know that i didn't change any username or password, especially root, what happened, and how do I fix it???


I am currently booting off of CD1, using the "linux rescue" option. I have changed the password on all accounts, including root, but still nothing. I kepe getting a message that says ""Authentication failed". What the heck is this?

Thanks,
Brett

How did you change the passwords once in rescue mode (nice job getting to that point btw)?

Cool

at the promt in rescue mode, i typed in chroot /mnt/sysimage. After that, you get permission to mess with usernames and passwords via the "adduser" "passwd" commands.

I just need some serious help here. I have spent three days over the course of about 15 hours of work loading stuff on my machine. I don't want to have to reload this darn thing.

I am pretty darn sure that somewhere when I was setting up SAMBA I told the Linux to validate usernames and passwords with a network server. And since there is not one, no username or password can get validated.

HELP!

Got it working!!!!!

Here are the steps i took to fix it;

1. Boot off of CD1

2. Type in "linux rescue" at the first prompt

3. Type in "chroot /mnt/sysimage" at the prompt

4. Type in "authconfig"

5. Turn off all authentication options

-Brett

Suggest you keep the MD5 and Shadow password options.

unless you're using NIS, in which case I'm told that there'll be some problem [or at least, the install on Debian says so].

did any of the new packages u installed scr*w up your PAM configuration, I wonder?