Am Montag, 28. Februar 2011 schrieb Jim Kester: > I installed debian 6.0.0 amd64 netinst. I installed about 3 different time. > I can login to my regular account and everything seems to work. Since I'm > using an AMD Athlon 64 x2 I thought I should be using this version. I get > an authentication failure when I try to login as root. I tried the 32 bit > version before this and was able to login as root. I've checked my > password many times. I've been using computers for about 20 years. Started > with Dos than Windows. I tried linux a few years ago and didn't have much > luck with it. Seems to have improved. Look like I've gotten everything to > work except my printer (Brother MFC-5860CN). Anyone know what might be > going on with my root login and if their is away to make my printer to > work. It's not listed in the database of printers. > > Thanks > > In God We Trust! > Have a nice day! > Jim Kester
Hi Jim, you could check the settings of the root-device. Also maybe you got sudoers activated, so that it is not possible, to login as root. If you got the wrong password, edit /etc/shadow by using a live-cd, and delete the password. So you can login without any password as root. If this is working, set a new password. Good luck Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102282130.39916.hans.ullr...@loop.de
