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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">using fedora core on a toshiba tecra M2 laptop.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">its a dual boot using grub with windows xp</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have been using it regularly with no troubles. All patches including latest kernel have been applied.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">yesterday i installed httpd, ftp and samba, again i downloaded all patches.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am using the default fedora gui, when i try to log in as a user or root, i immediately get the message "authentication failed"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So i booted in single user mode, changed the passwd and tried again. same message.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It's as if the auth demon is not listening as it spits me out straight away. root or normal user</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">is there anything i can check to make sure this is listening? if not any clues as to why this has all of a sudden happened? has samba corrupted something?</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cheers</FONT>
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