Passwords seem to be garbling or encrypting

[Martyn Perring <martyn perring dial pipex com>]

Hi,

I've just finished a custom install of RH7.2 on a COMPAQ Deskpro 4000.

Once the installation completed I booted up into KDE but whenever I try to login using my assigned password, both local and NIS I get an 'incorrect password' error.  This happens as both the user I defined during installation and more worryingly as root.

Currently I have had to null the passwords for both users - not very secure!

Oddly, if I use xscreensaver, this is happy to accept my user password and uses NIS to authenticate my password properly - it will not accept a null password.  This leads me to suspect that the login process is either encrypting or garbling the password entries.

Anybody got any ideas what's happening here and how to fix it?  If I can't fix this soon I'll have to revert back to a  more useable version of RH, either 7.0 or 7.1, I can't allow this machine to remain unprotected.

Regards,

Martyn Perring