On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:59:27AM +1000, David Harris wrote: > So i booted in single user mode, changed the passwd and tried again. same > message. > It's as if the auth demon is not listening as it spits me out straight away. > root or normal user > is there anything i can check to make sure this is listening? if not any > clues as to why this has all of a sudden happened? has samba corrupted > something? Could be a lot of things, but there's no "auth daemon". There's several different programs involved in authentication, but not a daemon process. What do you see in the files /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure? Something there probably tells you exactly what's wrong (at least if you know how to interpret the messages). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
