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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?
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.
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