You could boot from a rescue CD, mount the filesystem, and then look around for issues, including pam and the passwd file. You might want to run a rootkit finder as well. Jeremy On Wednesday 04 February 2009 3:42:05 pm Raymond Norton wrote: > I am trying to help another tech fix a login problem. Users cannot login > to the console or via ssh. When an attempt is made all users get > "permission denied". > > However users, including root can login via webmin. Attempting to > change root password returns the following error: > passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered > > Googling around seems to indicate it might be a problem with pam, but I > have not found a solid answer on how to fix it yet. > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090205/54793dc7/attachment.htm