Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 23:27:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507232607.447B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.92.960507194217.14236A-100000@martin.luther.edu>
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, Benjamin Tomhave wrote: > System: IBM pentium running FreeBSD 2.1 > Problem: Up until 15-20 minutes ago, all was fine. Now, all of a sudden, > nobody can login from anywhere but the x-login on my 4th virtual console. > I can't even login as anybody on one of the other 3 virtual consoles!!!!!! > There are no signs of attack or anything. The password file appears to be > fine. The group file appears to be fine. The database me be messed up, > but I don't know how to check it. I need help on this ASAP, and that > means hopefully tonight!! I've got users depending on this machine and > I've never seen a problem like this before -ever-!!! What has happened???? > Help!!! Please!!! First of all, relax. :-) Next, what do you mean by "can't login"? Do they get some error message? No response to <return>s? If you can login from your xterm, then the password database should be OK. Check out ps ax and make sure the gettys are still running. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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