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I'm now hesitant to restart the mini since I want to be able to login to it. When it restarted I did nothing but enable Remote Desktop - and STILL I'm unable to login to it via Remote Desktop, always getting the "authentication failed" message. I entered a new (third) completely unique administrative password. Now thinking that perhaps someone compromised my mini, I reformatted the drive and reinstalled OS X Server from scratch. Once that was done I restarted - and still the mini wouldn't let me login either directly or through Remote Desktop.
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I restarted from the OS X Server DVD and changed the administrative password from there, thinking that perhaps I entered it incorrectly. It was only the administrative account that's an issue.) (It's perhaps worth noting that all of my user accounts on the server continued to work without any problems. It too would not let me login, indicating the password was wrong. I connected a monitor to the mini and tried logging in directly. Neither the old nor the new password was working. After I did this I was unable to access the mini via Remote Desktop it would tell me that authentication had failed. After I did this I naturally changed the password that Remote Desktop was using. Up until about two months ago that's worked without a hitch.Ībout two months ago I decided to change my administrator password on my server as I suspected the old password had been discovered. I usually run it headless when I need to access it directly I go through Apple Remote Desktop to get to it. I've got a Mac mini that I use as a home server, running 10.5 Server.