Re: Root password does not work

2002-12-01 Thread nate
lrnobs said: > Booted to single user mode. > Logged in as regular user, then If your running LILO you can bypass authentication and get a root shell with: linux init=/bin/bash (pass that as options to lilo) if your using GRUB the setup will probably be different I've only had very very brief

Re: Root password does not work

2002-12-01 Thread lrnobs
took me right into gnome. I ran this way for awhile as I was working on > > Samba. I could login as user, and back to root without a problem. > > > > Since this pc is destined to be a server I changed run level in inittab back > > to 3. The root password does not work prob

Re: Root password does not work

2002-12-01 Thread Bret Hughes
an this way for awhile as I was working on > Samba. I could login as user, and back to root without a problem. > > Since this pc is destined to be a server I changed run level in inittab back > to 3. The root password does not work problem came back. I switched back > to run level

Root password does not work

2002-12-01 Thread lrnobs
er, and back to root without a problem. Since this pc is destined to be a server I changed run level in inittab back to 3. The root password does not work problem came back. I switched back to run level 5 as the default run level and there is no problem logging in back and forth. Any more ide

Re: Newbie Questions - root password does not work

2002-11-30 Thread lrnobs
> > Startup, login as root - ok, login as user - ok, try to login again > > as root - login incorrect... > > > The file /etc/securetty is used as a list of terminals from which > root is allowed to log in. It is possible that some of the tty? > entries are missing or corrupted. You can edit this

Re: Newbie Questions - root password does not work

2002-11-30 Thread Tom Pollerman
eate the root > > > password. I > did > > > that and it worked. > > > > > > Now, if I login as a user, then try to login as root the root > > > password > does > > > not work, but if I power off the computer and restart then root > >

Re: Newbie Questions - root password does not work

2002-11-30 Thread lrnobs
ing RH 7.3. I had a problem of the root password not > > working. > > > > I found information on how to delete then recreate the root password. I > > did > > > > that and it worked. > > > > > > > > Now, if I login as a user, then try to login as r

Re: Newbie Questions - root password does not work

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
2-11-30 at 11:31, lrnobs wrote: > > > I am installing RH 7.3. I had a problem of the root password not > working. > > > I found information on how to delete then recreate the root password. I > did > > > that and it worked. > > > > > > Now, if I

Re: Newbie Questions - root password does not work

2002-11-30 Thread lrnobs
lem of the root password not working. > > I found information on how to delete then recreate the root password. I did > > that and it worked. > > > > Now, if I login as a user, then try to login as root the root password does > > not work, but if I power off the computer and r