On Monday 19 May 2008 12:52:04 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I have Fedora 5 and 6 installed on my machines. I strangely find > > > that I am often unable to login to the machine with my regular > > password using ssh. Fortunately I have physical access to the machine, > > which allows me to change the password back. Any idea what could be > > the reason? By changing the password back, you mean that your root password has actually been changed? If no, then you need to configure ssh to allow remote root login (not a good idea though). If yes, then it's almost a certainty that your system has been hacked. Wipe and install Fedora 8 or 9. Peter -- Dr. Peter D. Roopnarine, Associate Curator Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences 875 Howard St. San Francisco CA 94103 Phone: (415) 379-5271 FAX: (415) 379-5732 WWW: http://zeus.calacademy.org/roopnarine/peter.html Blog: http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/ America is Beautiful, but she has an ugly side -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list