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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PANIC: Can not login in
Date: 15 May 1997 14:27:41 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <01bc60c7$ec1e5320$a299adcf@argus.axxis.com>,
"Q. Wade Billings" <blitz@axxis.com> writes:
> HELP!
>
> I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 box that I can not log into, even from console.
>
> I have rebooted into single user mode and found that the owner of inetd may
> have been changed, but since I have nothing to compare it to, I have no
> idea if it has or not. What I need to know is the owner and file
> permissions of inetd daemon and all of it's support files.
>
> The problem manifests itself by saying "login incorrect" whenever I attempt
> to login, regardless it is local or remote. I have rebuilt the password
> files and databases, verified that portmapper is running, and the weirdest
> thing is sendmail, pop, and ftp work just fine. But I can not log into the
> machine unless I go single user mode at the console.
>
> Any help would be appreciated as this machine is part of an ISP that I
> administer.
At a wild guess, I'd look at your keymap (in /etc/sysconfig). Maybe
it's corrupt and one of the letters in your password is being
mapped wrongly....
Apart from this, there's no reason I can figure that you can type in
a password in single-user and not in multi-user !
> Thanks,
>
> Q. Wade Billings
> AXXIS Internet Services
> Network Systems Administrator
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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