Paul Forgey wrote:
> I seem to be locked out of my machine suddenly.  Although I can still
> boot single user, any attempt to login via the console or over the
> network causes 'login incorect' immediately after entering username.
> 
> Nothing in the configuration has changed.. this just started happening
> when I rebooted.
> 
> I can rexec a shell, but I can't su.
> 
> I tried vipw in single user mode (with my filesystems read/write) to
> rebuild the security database, but this didn't fix it.
> 
> HELP?!  Thanks.

What are the permissions on /etc and the various passwd-related files?
Can you log in as root?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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