On Wednesday 05 May 2004 19:27, Joe Sullivan wrote:
Not sure what's causing it, but for some reason my system seems to forget where to look for passwords.
Still not sure what caused this, but I finally got it working... 1) Rebooted using the option "init=/bin/sh" 2) From the shell, mount -o remount -w /dev/hda3 (since it was read-only) 3) pico /etc/shadow ... removed the encrypted passwords for both root and user, so neither had a password. Trouble: Rebooted into init 3, could log into both without passwords. Changed the passwords on both. But when I restarted again in init 5, the passwords were hosed again. So I repeated 1-3 above. Then rebooted into the normal init 5. I set passwords from there in KDE using the "Change Password" in the System menu. This has apparently worked. No longer having the issues. But really, no clue what caused this. Never seen it happen before, and I've been on SuSE since 7.3. Ah well, at least I can finish installing all the stuff I need now. :-) Joe