Well I really did it this time. I installed RH 8.0 as an upgrade and all worked great. I'm not totally sure what I did but the result is that I can't log in at all...no one not even root. I can boot right up to the login prompt without any errors though.
I believe that I was last playing around in the menus and may have turned on ldap authentication. When I boot from the disk in rescue mode I can see that my /etc/passwd file is ok so all is not lost...I hope. How can I disable ldap authentication? -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer