From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 23:25:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA27917 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 23:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA27912 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 23:25:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00534; Tue, 7 May 1996 23:27:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 23:27:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Benjamin Tomhave cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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