Hello all, I believe I botched my Debian 1.3.1 install up, upon the first bootup. I was converting from Slackware to debian after a crash (perfect time to do this), so I had my users and home directories on another partition....
I did not want to setup the initial user that debian asks for, and I could not figure out a way around it or out of that part of the installation, so I opened up console1 (ALT-F2) and started to mount my drives and start to setup the /etc directory with my old files (like fstab, hosts, you know the rest). I simply added my users to the "passwd" file that was in place. From there I ran dselect, and finished the install process. I rebooted the system for the second time and VConsole0, even though I never went back to console0 to get rid of that "adduser script", was still prompting. Once the reboot finished it promped me for password.... So I entered my user pasword (for user 'jay') It bumped out to the complete login screen and then after idle time "Password:" appears. And keeps apearing adding the new word. It fills up the whole screen. Once I enter the password for root I was let in and all was fine. Once I exit, it simply prompted for "Password:" again! No other Virtual Consoles are affected, just VC0. Can I fix this? Also did I kill my self with the shadowconfig question after the adduser part (before you go into dselect)? I really don't want to go back and reinstall all of Debian again. Thanks. --Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
