[ale] Console Craziness

[Robert Hoffman]

I've had the same thing happen to me. In my case, it turned out that I was using a keyboard with a broken 's' key.

-Rob

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Gary Maltzen <maltzen at MM.COM>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 22:45:35 -0500

>Since you can SSH in, we can rule out a shell in /etc/passwd that is not
>in /etc/shells
>
>Did you check /etc/hosts.allow to see if it allows LOCAL logins
>
>Is there a /var/log/secure file? If so, does it give a clue?
>
>>Late last night I was forced to reboot a DNS server running Linux 2.2.12
>>remotely. I get into the office this morning and tried to hook a keyboard 
>>up to it and, of course, the keyboard didn't function. I rebooted the box
>>again with a monitor and keyboard attached to it so I could do some
>>console work. Now from the console whatever login/password combination I
>>try gives me a Login Incorrect error, the strange part is that I can still 
>>ssh in using the same logins. I've tried everything. Caps Locks, Num 
>>Locks, I've typed all the password letters into the Login: prompt to make 
>>sure that the letters on the keyboard work. What could it possibly be? 
>
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