Friends,
We recently setup Red Hat 6.2 (server installed) and yesterday I had to go
change the root password via linux single mode (the client couldn't su to
root). At any rate, here is the problem.
The client can't login with the user password that he set; however, he can
login via the root password. So, when he telnet to box and login with:
joeuser
and types the password he is supposed to connect, he gets an error. However,
login with the root password (with the regular user) logs in him.
At that point, he tried to change the password for user. No success. When
entering the new password, he gets the message:
Password unchanged.
So he su to root and tried to change the password from there. No go. Still
logins with the root password.
One would that it is an isolated problem. Except that when I add in another
user (with the password I specified), I couldn't log with that password I
choose with that user - but I was able to login with the root password.
It is as if the root password is linked with the users on that machine. Any
ideas what is going on?
(BTW, passwd does have the SETGID correctly set).
Rilindo Foster
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