<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">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". <div>
<br></div><div>I've been dealing with Linux and password files for a while and I am not quite satisfied with that answer.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone now if the Ubuntu Launchpad products somehow allows for a shared password / directory service? Going to read up now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again.</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Brian</div></font></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Bill Moran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wmoran@potentialtech.com">wmoran@potentialtech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">In response to Brian Roberts <<a href="mailto:blroberts@gmail.com">blroberts@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> Good thought. I am not in front of the box right now, but will respond to<br>
> the thread as soon as I determine that.<br>
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</div>FYI, I've occasinally seen problems like this with marginal hardware,<br>
where the system shuts down but the HDD cache doesn't flush, so the<br>
data isn't there when the system starts back up.<br>
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If your other research doesn't reveal anything, see if the HDD has a<br>
cache and try disabling it.<br>
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I had thought all instance of that issue had been resolved by hardware<br>
vendors, but one never knows.<br>
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Bill Moran<br>
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