[wplug] Changed password not holding after reboot

[Brian Roberts]

Thanks for the help all.   It ended up that another tech was able to find
the original passwords, so this mystery has been shelved.    His explanation
was that it was a Ubuntu specific thing and resetting the root password
messed up the "access tokens".

I've been dealing with Linux and password files for a while and I am not
quite satisfied with that answer.

Does anyone now if the Ubuntu Launchpad products somehow allows for a shared
password / directory service?   Going to read up now.

Thanks again.

Brian

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> In response to Brian Roberts <blroberts at gmail.com>:
>
> > Good thought.   I am not in front of the box right now, but will respond
> to
> > the thread as soon as I determine that.
>
> FYI, I've occasinally seen problems like this with marginal hardware,
> where the system shuts down but the HDD cache doesn't flush, so the
> data isn't there when the system starts back up.
>
> If your other research doesn't reveal anything, see if the HDD has a
> cache and try disabling it.
>
> I had thought all instance of that issue had been resolved by hardware
> vendors, but one never knows.
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech.com
> http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/
>
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