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mandrake problem

Started by saeZ May 26, 2003 at 12:06 PM 4 replies 800+ views

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May 26, 2003 at 12:06 PM

Hello, This might not belong to gamedev.net forums at all, so feel free to moderate this, but I thought of asking a question anyway. I recently stumbled across a nasty problem: my "lovely" Mandrake 9.1 doesn''t let me sign in to the system anymore. When I type my username and wait for it to ask me for the password, it just hangs up there. It doesn''t even print the "Password:" text. I have no idea what''s going on. This hasn''t happened before. This problem occured today, after few weeks of succesful work. As far as I know, I haven''t changed anything in the system that would cause this type of situation. I''m not a newbie, but I have never had this type of problems before. Yes, I''ve tried single user booting, but I have no idea what to fix there. Please, any ideas how to fix this, in single user mode or what ever. Thank you. saeZ

Interim

May 26, 2003 at 6:17 PM

Did you try switching to another virtual terminal? Or log in remotely (SSH?) Yet?

Interim

saeZ

May 27, 2003 at 2:14 AM

Indeed, I got hacked. Found some weird quotations from config files; "HAHAHAHAHA" etc. Weird... but ah well, first time for everything. Now for the big basic dilemma; which distro to install now. MDK9.1 has really let me down on many occasions.

Thanks for replying

saeZ

saeZ

May 29, 2003 at 1:55 AM

Thank you for the links AP, I will check them out. My security level in Mandrake was standard. I was running shorewall when I installed MDK, but I had to take it out because it screwed up internet connection sharing. I know it''s stupid to live without a firewall, but it was one of those "i''ll do it later" -things. Well, taught me a lesson. Just installed Redhat 9 and now building ip masquerading, firewalling, et all, manually. I hope to have a bit better luck this time...

saeZ

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