On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:59, David Harris wrote: > Hi > Hi David, > using fedora core on a toshiba tecra M2 laptop. > > its a dual boot using grub with windows xp > > I have been using it regularly with no troubles. All patches including > latest kernel have been applied. > > yesterday i installed httpd, ftp and samba, again i downloaded all > patches. > > I am using the default fedora gui, when i try to log in as a user or > root, i immediately get the message "authentication failed" You can attempt a login from a "virtual console" to see if the problem is with the GUI login screen. >From the GUI login screen, press Control-Alt-F1. You should get the white-on-black console with a login prompt. Try and login here. To get back to the GUI login screen, press Control-Alt-F7. Also check obvious things like caps-lock not being on etc. > > 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? > > So is Macquarie looking to use Linux? Or is it a personal interest? Cheers, Ben -- .O. Ben Stringer ..O ben@xxxxxxxxxxx OOO linux|java|majitek|gnu
