No Worries .. I managed to get past the error. Actually, i was using a same username that was in my /etc/shadow . I renamed the user and it worked.<br><br>Cheers<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Alan Buxey <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk">A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
<div class="im">&gt; Hi,<br>
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&gt; I am unable to locally authenticate a user from users file. Below is the log :<br>
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</div>what does the entry in your users file look like?<br>
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