Andreas Ntaflos wrote: >A colleague of mine set up a Debian 3.1 (or was ist 3.0?) box a couple >of months ago and has had the following problem since then: > >When booting the machine everything seems fine and it gets to the login >prompt eventually. There every non-system, non-root user can login and >(if authorized) do an `su'. All is well. A login as the superuser, >however, fails. No matter what password is entered, the system refuses to >let us in as root. The root-password can be changed without problem >when `su'-ed to root so the problem is not that it's mistyped at the >prompt or anything. > >A (I think) related problem is that there's only one virtual console >available (the first). Pressing Alt-F2, ..., F12 doesn't work, no other >ttys are there. That disturbs me. > > That _is_ odd; something must've gone wrong during the install.
I'd start by looking in "/etc/inittab", to see if it looks normal. I'd also install chkrootkit; your colleague may have been compromised. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
