At 01:10 AM 3/21/00 -0500, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote [in part]:
>The SuSE and Slackware systems share a swap partition, but that is it.
>And they are on the same machine, so they can not run simultaneously. I
>just checked /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd on the slackware's drive, and it
>seems that an encrypted password is entered in its /etc/shadow, but there
>is no corresponding entry in the password space in /etc/passwd. root has
>encrypted password entries in both of these files.
This sounds a lot like a version mismatch. If the system is using shadow
passwords, there should be passwords in /etc/shadow bot NOT in /etc/passwd .
In /etc/passwd, there should be an "x" in the password field. It sounds like
you have a version lf login that doesn't use shadow passwords, but a version
of passwd that does.
A crude solution -- use a text editor to copy the encrypted password for the
user account from /etc/shadow to /etc/passwd . Then see if the account can
login. This isn't a fix, just a test to isolate the problem. The fix (if
this is the problem) is to upgrade Slackware to a version that uses shadow
passwords consistently.
Only a guess, of course ...
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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