Hi, msec is a bit destructive when you change the level upward, not only do file attributes get changed , but a few get blown away, the xinetd files. so once you go down the files are no longer there to reinstall. I've been caught by this one ! I did a reinstall of every thing after this happened on my system, but I'm not sure if thats really required or not. I seen to recall some of the daemon binaries were also blown away....well I could'nt find them ! So does msec hide them somewhere...one for the sec gurus
HTH Franki wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am having a small problem, > > recently I installed 8.1 on a box, and installed 2.4.12-5 kernel.. all > went well. > > So anyway, I started by using msec to increase security to high.,.. > and started opening all the stuff that I needed. > > then I added amavis and started setting it up as a server.. > > then I thought I should restart it,, when I did, I get the login > screen, (console not x) and when I try to log in, > > it tells me who the last login was (me) but won't go to a prompt. > > so I booted rescue, and changed msec to 3 and then 2, both to no > avail. > > I can't log in,, I also changed all the passwords and tried to log in > again, no difference.. > > I am abit lost here, anyone have any suggestions.. > neither root or my user account will login ... which suggests its not > a password issue.. > > any help would be much appreciated. > > > > rgds > > Frank -- Richard Bown Ericsson Microwave Systems AB SE-431 84 Mölndal e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +46 31 74 72422 mobile +46 7098 72422
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