[K12OSN] Root password corrupts ?

[Barry R Cisna]

    HI LIST,,

    Has anyone else using K12LTSP ( v 4.2.0) experienced the root password "corrupting"?
    We are running four K12LTSP,servers ( 2 each,on a two subnet ..network).
    I m the only person accessing any of the servers,,,and I've {sort of},,,am thinking the password corruption,
    may possibly do to  using Webmin to do a few tasks, and it seems this happens when using MS Internet Explorer
    ( wouldnt you know it)!..
    A couple time,s i've simply "looked" at some config files,,through Webmin,,,,and after exiting,,,then trying to VNC back into the same server, from my client box the root password,,,no longer works?
    Of course the root password also no longer lets me log into the Webmin interface.
    I m using the lastest version of Webmin 1.180.
    ALso,,it seems this has happened when I've had two or three IE /Webmin,pages open at the same time, looking at the four different servers,,, at the same time from my client Windows box?
    Ive had to reformat a few times do to this very problem! ( ugh)...
    I had know way of correcting the "trashed" password..
    Tryed to do a "manual" copy of the passwd,gshadow,shadow,group file from another "good" root password,server, but no joy,:(.

    Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this,,or if I m worng on the Webmin,"theory"..

    Thanks....

    Barry CIsna 
RR1 Box 213
Gladstone, IL 61437

brcisna at frontiernet.net
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