Hello all. Logins keep going bad on me. Repeatedly.
I first noticed the problem yesterday after updating sid. First sudo failed to accept my password. I logged out of KDE and was not able to log back in. Let's call my normal login that I've been using the past couple years login1. After this happened I switched to a console where I was successfully able to log in as root. I tried using usermod to reset the password for user1 but was still unable to login. I can su to user1 from root, however. I created a new user, user2, which I was able to use to successfully log in. After adding user2 to sudoers I was able to use kuser to change the password for user1 and log back in to my normal account. All was fine and dandy until a few hours later the same thing started happening again. This time I was unable to log in as user1 or user2 so I was forced to create a user3 and again use kuser to set a new password for user1. This time I'm not logging out until I figure out what's going on. Any guess as to what's going on? Any idea why kuser lets me successfully reset the password and not usermod? Here's how all this looked to auth.log: Jul 6 07:55:33 dsl017-124-002 kdm: :0[4670]: pam_unix(kdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user =joe Jul 6 07:55:51 dsl017-124-002 kdm: :0[4670]: pam_unix(kdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user =joseph Jul 6 07:56:22 dsl017-124-002 login[4702]: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty4 ruser= rhost = user=joe Jul 6 07:56:24 dsl017-124-002 login[4702]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on 'tty4' FOR `joe', Authentication failure Jul 6 07:56:29 dsl017-124-002 login[4702]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0) Jul 6 07:56:29 dsl017-124-002 login[4761]: ROOT LOGIN on 'tty4' Jul 6 07:59:48 dsl017-124-002 usermod[8030]: change user `joe' password Jul 6 07:59:59 dsl017-124-002 login[4700]: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty3 ruser= rhost = user=joe Jul 6 08:00:01 dsl017-124-002 login[4700]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on 'tty3' FOR `joe', Authentication failure Jul 6 08:00:40 dsl017-124-002 su[8035]: Successful su for joe by root Jul 6 08:00:40 dsl017-124-002 su[8035]: + tty4 root:joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]