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To: Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu>
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Subject: Re: HELP!!! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 May 1996 22:31:48 CDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 20:34:14 -0700
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>On Tue, 7 May 1996, David Greenman 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!!!
>>
>>    You didn't mention what happens when you try to log in. If it just hangs,
>> this might be caused by a nameserver being down.
>>
>It prompts for login, you enter it.  It prompts for passwd, you enter.  It
>tells you "Login incorrect."  THis is for anybody and everybody through
>everything except ftp and x-console.

   Sounds like the symbolic link for the libcrypt shared library has changed
and passwords are assumed to be DES instead of MD5 or vice-versa.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project