On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:48:03AM +1000, David Harris wrote: > No, /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure give no clues. i did check them. > its very strange Nothing at all? Not even failed login messages? Could you post the log lines from approximately the time period when you were trying to log in? Another thing to try would be to run "authconfig". This will rebuild the PAM config files which determine how authentication is handled. (PS -- a back-and-forth conversation with multiple people is much easier if you don't top-post.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>