Incorrect Login for root

[V.V.Prasad]

Ben,

Tx for the continued interest.
I am not able to login as any user also! I had not tried it previously,
I did give the sync command. The passwd files & the shadow files are ok.

Prasad



At 02:50 PM 12/20/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Can you log in as a regular user, then su to root?
>/etc/securetty?
>
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>
>V.V.Prasad wrote:
> >>> When I try root login, I get Incorrect Login.
> >>> I enter through Lilo and Linux single mode and change the root
> >>> password. However, when I exit single user and try to login again as
>
> >>> root, I get the same result: Incorrect Login.
>
>
>Hmmm, when you set the password in Single User Mode, did you run "sync"
>and gracefully restart the server?
>If not, then the change of the password might not ever have made it to
>disk.
>
>One other thing you might try (just to make this easier)
>When in Single-User-Mode, edit the /etc/sudoers file and give one of the
>known-good-login users privs to run "sudo /bin/su -" so that you don't
>have to reboot a gazillion times to find the problem.
>
>-Ben.
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