Incorrect Login for root

[V.V.Prasad]

IAK Tanoli,

Thanks. One part of the problem got solved. Now I am able to login as root 
as well as all users. I ran pwunconv. That moved the encrypted passwords to 
the passwd file and deleted the shadow file.
However, if I run pwconv again, I am back to square one.
I ran pwconv and that is how the system is at now.
But the question is do I need shadow? What am I getting with it?

prasad


At 01:28 AM 12/21/2004 -0800, IAK Tanoli wrote:


>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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