Re: Help: What have I done wrong?

[aderhaag wolfenet com (Alan E. Derhaag)]

"Timothy Ayodele" <toa ttns net> writes:

> All of a sudden, I could not login onto my RH4.2 through either console or
> terminal.... All I did was add a user and activated shadow.
> 
> I decided to go in through Linux 1 (single user mode) at boot and checked
> stuff. compare it to a running RH5.2 and nothing seems strange .....
> 
> I must have done something WRONG! PLEASE!!! I need help. I do not want to
> have to reinstall it. Even if I did and it happed again, I want to have a
> ready answer.
> 
> The funny thing is every other tcp daemon (ftp, mail etc.... except login)
> work fine.

You need to be using a login (and rlogin) that is shadow aware.  You
may be able to recover to do the installation of the upgraded
executables by restoring the passwords from the /etc/shadow file back
into your /etc/passwd file.  You may be able to use `pwunconv' to do
this.