I am on the phone now with a "code jockey" friend of mine in MN, who does ALL of his .Net teaching all over the Country on a laptop with SUSE with VMWare. With my encouragement, he did a clean install with 10.3 64-bit. He called with the SAME problem I had/have today with a clean 32-bit install - somehow during the install, the password encryption (I'm blaming PAM for this one) gets really messed up and you don't have root NOR the user password any longer.
Now, it's still "there" but the system won't let you login. I called Patrick Shanahan wondering if he'd run into this before. I had a long time ago with IBM's unix, but had forgotten all about "shadow." Patrick indicated that I should remove the passwords "aflicted" and that the system would ask for a new password(s). I'll know tomorrow night if that works. It didn't with my buddy from MN tonight, but he has a fingerprint reader on his new laptop and that did "save his bacon". 10.3 wouldn't accept a new password, but the fingerprint reader did recognize the image and he was allowed on the box. I don't know how wide spread this problem is, but we sure don't need a reviewer from ZDNet or elsewhere having the same problem!! Fred -- This message originated from a Linux computer using Open Source software: openSuSE Linux 10.3. No Gates, no Windows....just Linux - STABLE & SECURE! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
