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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmsperth.per.dms.CSIRO.AU!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!EU.net!sun4nl!hacktic!not-for-mail From: alexlh@hacktic.nl (alexlh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: login trouble Date: 4 Feb 1994 00:26:50 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic, networking for the masses Lines: 16 Message-ID: <2is188INNrdg@xs4all.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: xs4all.hacktic.nl Summary: Something screwed up with the password db Keywords: login I have the following problem: I can't login on any account that has a password on it. Login doesn't ask even ask for a password, it just tells me 'Login incorrect.' If I delete the password, I can login without any problems, but it isn't the proper way to set up a root account. When I run passwd (the program), it responds with 'Mismatch; try again, EOF to quit.' It prints this a million times, ands the only way to stop it is to kill it from another terminal. I've tried running pwd_mkdb, useing binaries from another FreeBSD machine, but the problem won't go away... Help me! Alex Le Heux