[rhn-users] An authentication problem

Thu Feb 19 15:13:50 UTC 2004

You can reboot to single-user mode and change the root password, but if
the machine has been hacked already, you should just format the drive
and re-install.  If you change the password, you should figure out why
you can't login.

Dan

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 09:10, Guobin Hu, Ph.D. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 recently.
> I couldn't login as root or regular user any more 
> this morning. The system prompted AUTHENTICATION
> FAILED when I tried to login. How to fix this problem?
> Any help and/or suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
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Daniel Wittenberg
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University of Iowa - ITS