Hi every one ok i have figured out where my settings for local logins get messed up. i installed a fresh red hat 9 . i dowloaded the latest kerberos packages and after installing them and running this command i have [root@NIIT158 junaid]# rpm -qa |grep krb krb5-libs-1.2.7-14 krb5-workstation-1.2.7-14 krbafs-1.1.1-9 krbafs-devel-1.1.1-9 pam_krb5-1.60-1 krb5-devel-1.2.7-10 ok now i havent installed samba. i havent touched pam.d. remember i just did a fresh installation. and when i try to login through my vsftp server this is the error it gives me [root@NIIT158 junaid]# ftp localhost Connected to NIIT158. 220 (vsFTPd 1.1.3) 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type although it accepts the user and password but this was not case earlier on before i installed this krb5 -workstation. after the fresh install the workstation package of kerberos was missing so i downloaded it and then installed it after upgrading the libs package. right now there is only an error but i would like to solve it before i can move on to more complex problems. can any one tell me why is this error coming up. last time i didnt pay attention to this error all local users were unable to logon to the machine remotely or locally except for the root. ==== Sahibzada Junaid Noor Ph # (+92) (051) 5950 940 Cell # (+92) (0333) 5223586 Qazi plaza,Third Floor,Commerical Market,Chaklala Scheme 3, Rawalpindi Islamic Republic of Pakistan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/