Incorrect Login for root

[IAK Tanoli]

try booting in single user... change root password...
run command "pwconv" to update the /etc/shadow file
and "pwck" to check if there is any error in
/etc/passwd file. Also after changing password try
switching to nomral user by: # su - $username . If it
can login then again by that normal users try # su -
to login by root.  It must  ask root passwd give root
passwd. If all went ok then "init 3" or "init 5" will
be your choice.

--- "V.V.Prasad" <vvprasad at nomus.net.in> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
> Of Ben Russo
> >Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:50 PM
> >To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> >Subject: Re: Incorrect Login for root
> >
> >
> >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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