On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, 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.

	Something similar to me happened awhile back, and it was from bad
file permissions on the /etc directory. It SHOULD be rwxr-xr-x, or 755.
Also check the permission s on your various password related files and
databases. Is it just regular users, or can you not even log in as root? 

	Ryan

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