David Pratt wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I seem to have a problem with my RedHat 6.0 box. Only I have root access and
> there is only one user added (for telnet login).
> Today, I was unable to login remotely using my user account. After
> physically going to the server, I found that the root password was not being
> recognised either.
> I tried several re-boots, but no joy.
> I finally got into the box by doing a linux 1 at lilo, then changed the root
> password.
>
> However, I am really worried now as to why this happened and how I can stop
> it again in the future.
>
> Does anyone have any idea as to why the password was not recognised? Is it
> hardware, a hacker/cracker? I did not change any system passwords in the
> last month and am running Apache, DNS and qmail.
Passwords do not change on their own. What version of DNS are you
running?
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