OS X 10.5 server can't log in locally with any username/password
Hi -
About a week ago, our server experienced a kernel panic that took us days to resolve. Basically on every reboot we would get a KP, diagnostics indicated faulty RAM; we replaced the RAM and still had KPs...then, one day, it just started working again. OKAY. Except...
Except that no users, including the administrator, can log in using any password.
* I've tried to reset the administrator's password using the Ctrl-S/launchctl/passwd approach, to no avail.
* I deleted the AppleSetupDone file and went thru the process of re-configuring the server, but the "Local Administrator" username and the password I give that administrator does not work on reboot.
* I have tried using the "reset password" utility on an OS X install disk, but I only just found the OS X 10.5 disk so I haven't tried that yet.
User files all appear to be present on the main drive, the external drive, and the partition of the external drive, which is nice.
Any ideas for other methods to try?
Update: I tried the reset password option on the OS X 10.5 disk, and it allows me to reset the password for the local administrator (which is now called, after a number of re-configurations, Local Administrator2222), but when I reboot the machine that password does not work for that username.
I seem to recall that I am not supposed to change the password for the Primary Administrator (root), so I haven't done that. But I'm running out of things to try.
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