On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:47:12PM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:59:54AM -0800, Steve Langasek uttered: > > What command are you running in order to change root's password?
> After editing grub-pc Stanza to 'rw init=/bin/bash' I'm using 'passwd "user"'
> then when prompted entering the new pwd twice. Sometimes this works
> sometimes not ... Very strange
So you are running the command 'passwd root'?
> > What is it that you're running that results in an "Authentication token
> > manipulation error"?
> I boot to console; then when attempting to log-in that is the error.
And you get this error when logging in as either 'root' or as your user?
> > What are the values of the account management fields for the root user in
> > /etc/shadow ('getent shadow root | cut -f3- -d:')?
> Doesn't seem to return any output; Don't forget I'm unable to su to
> root, so running as normal user didn't return anything when run from
> xterm.
Of course it doesn't. I need this output when run /as the root user/, in
rescue mode or whatever it takes to get it.
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