Re: redhat 7 has stopped asking for a password after you enter the username

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From: amullen
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 05:27

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Sounds like getty may have a problem!

Cheers,
DigiA


On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:33:04 GMT, parvathe@yahoo.com (parvathe) wrote:

>I have had Rethat 7 running for a few moths, but today, when I tried
>to log onto the terminal ( telnet from a WinME connected on my LAN )
>the login dialogue asked for the user name, then did not display the
>password prompt... [ctrl]-c broke the program and it went back to the
>username prompt.
>
>I went to the console on the server and tried to log in as a user,
>then as root, and both times the same thing happened, I could put in
>the user name, but the password prompt would not display, and if I
>just typed in the password, nothiong happened, though in all 3 cases I
>could break back to the username prompt with [ctrl]-c
>
>Any help is appreciated :-)
>

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