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  1. Bug #299717
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 299717

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Zarah Mattox (wawalak) wrote :

I have the same issue on my EEE PC 1000. Found a similar bug: Bug #26175.

/var/logs/auth.log shows:
Dec 15 14:03:29 zarah-laptop unix_chkpwd[7282]: check pass; user unknown
Dec 15 14:03:29 zarah-laptop unix_chkpwd[7282]: password check failed for user (zarah)
Dec 15 14:03:29 zarah-laptop gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 t$

# /var/log$ ls -l /etc/shadow
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 966 2008-12-14 13:56 /etc/shadow

# uname -a
Linux mycomputer 2.6.24-21-eeepc #1 SMP Thu Aug 7 22:18:05 MDT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux