Comment 5 for bug 872701

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Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) wrote : Re: [Bug 872701] Re: Not possible to enter correct password after screen lock

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Marc Deslauriers
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Can you paste the appropriate section of your auth.log file?
>
> Also, could you paste the output of the following commands:
> ls -l /etc/shadow
> ls -l /dev/null
>
> Thanks!

Oct 13 15:24:19 michael-1015PEM unix_chkpwd[22678]: password check
failed for user (michael)
Oct 13 15:24:19 michael-1015PEM gnome-screensaver-dialog:
pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname=
uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=michael
Oct 13 15:24:26 michael-1015PEM unix_chkpwd[22681]: password check
failed for user (michael)
Oct 13 15:24:26 michael-1015PEM gnome-screensaver-dialog:
pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname=
uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=michael
Oct 13 15:24:50 michael-1015PEM sudo: michael : TTY=tty1 ;
PWD=/home/michael ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/ls

$ less /var/log/auth.log
$ ls -l /etc/shadow
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 1014 2011-08-25 10:53 /etc/shadow
$ ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2011-10-10 08:29 /dev/null

Thanks Marc