Oops, lost password prompt

[Jonasx]

I'd been working on a samba based file server for work and everything seemed to be going great. I had the machine up and logged on as root for 3 or 4 days. After making a few kernel config tweaks, I rebooted the machine and now I can't login. I get a prompt for the user name, enter root, then I get no password prompt. It just goes immediately back to a login.

I'm not sure at what point I goofed, but I had been playing with the pam config files to try to get an auto created home directory structure for users when they first log in. I assumed that I messed up the config file.

Unfortunately I hadn't added ssh to the default run level, but I did have webmin. I was able to log in through webmin and edit the pam config files to the original (i think) copy. I'm still having the same problem.

Any ideas how to start diagnosing this problem?

Thanks!


edit:

Think I answered my own question: In the system messages log I found entries