I did not mess with pam stuff...;-) But when I do a 'w' I get this? w 5:53pm up 2:48, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 1.02, 1.30 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT funky :0 console 5:47pm ? 0.00s ? - funky pts/0 - 5:47pm 5:49 0.00s ? - funky pts/1 - 5:47pm 0.00s 0.05s 0.01s w I'm using SuSE 8.1 Pro Tia Dre :-) On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 17:48, Heiko Ettelbrueck wrote:

Hi,

arawak wrote:

...

Hi all,

For some strange reason I can log in as my normal user account without the password I set being having to be entered???

Even if I reset the password with passwd, I'm still allowed to login without using it...

I'm abit confused why this has happened should I rtfm or is something awry...?

Did you play around with your PAM configuration in /etc/pam.conf or /etc/pam.d/* ? It sounds like you removed or deactivated the password check... ;-)

Which SuSE (or other distro) version do you use?

Kind regards Heiko -- arawak

Thanks for that info, you where right on the mark... My /etc/passwd file was missing the 'x' as I'm using the /etc/shadow file. I replaced the 'x' and viola all is working again as it should do :-> Cheers Dre ;) On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 01:05, Paul wrote:

Check the passwd file and shadow file for corruption or bad/missing data. If the passwd/shadow have screwed entires then login can't check the credentials it sometimes does a wierd SIG interrupt and lets anyone login Try other users and or people that dont exist? Does the same thing happen?