On Sun, Apr 05, 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >Michael A. Peters wrote: >> Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> > Frédérique Da Luene wrote: >> >> Useradd newuser : ok >> >> passwd newuser : ok >> >> >> >> The password is not MD5, only 3DES. >> > >> > Again: Have you looked if passwd on your machine is the one from CentOS? >> > >> >> I would suggesting copying the binary to a known clean machine to check >> the md5sum to verify. If you might have been hacked, you can't check >> the md5 on that box. > >Yupp. The last times I had to handle/help in such situations, the binaries >were clearly way off for the machines - often a comparing ls -l is enough, but >not all the time. This will tell if the program is different and works on any RPM based system regardless of their package contents. rpm -V `rpm -qf /bin/login` Or of you're not lazy as I am. rpm -qf /bin/login # gets the name of the package rpm -V util-linux # the name of the package returned. -- Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 A man who would consider himself a bandit if, pistol in hand, he prevented me from carrying out a transaction that was in conformity with my interests has no scruples in working and voting for a law that replaces his private force with the public force and subjects me, at my own expense, to the same unjust restrictions. -- Bastiat, Frederic, Harmonies