[CentOS] Passwords apparently stopped working.
m.roth at 5-cent.us
m.roth at 5-cent.usTue Jan 3 15:57:59 UTC 2012
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James B. Byrne wrote: > I encountered a couple of strange events with respect to > password authentication this morning. Two of our staff > were unable to login onto several systems using their > usual passwords. Both users had last logged in on these > hosts using their accounts and passwords on Friday past. <snip> > Resetting both the passwords to their current values using > the passwd utility on each system corrected the problem > insofar as the users were concerned. However, I am > somewhat perplexed as to the reason for their passwords to > stop working in the first place. Is anyone here aware of > any reason why this might happen? Is it possible that they'd logged into something else first, and had multiple credentials, and the systems were trying to get those first? mark
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