Fedora 2 and user issues

[rat007]

Something rotten is in my Fedora 2. u2date installed some packages (appx 80 updates) and after this I'm not able to login as user, I can only login into system as root. So I tried to delete password from shadow file and to remove all users except of root and than to add new user and the behaviour of the system is still same - after entering correct password for user to system freezes for several minutes and than ask again for login without notifing me about wrong password. Ok, so I tried gnome gui for adding/removing users but the result is same. Have u ever seen such a strange acting of login?

[Randomcasualty]

Hi, I have just come across the very same problem. I also can't figure out how to get back into the system without being root.

This is extremely frustrating

[kkubasik]

i have no idea were to start, but do you have logs of what was installed? a list of packages might start to point us in the right directions.

[stathisx]

can you can look at /var/log/messages and post ?it may be useful...

[rat007]

I've figured out that it was related to wrong settings of NIS and LDAP. The passwords weren't searched localy but on internet. My fault - I admit