Yes, that works fine. I am still left not being able to login as root though. What setting is causing that in Arch? On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:09 AM Yash Karandikar via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 11/13/20 10:06 AM, Jack Frost via arch-general wrote: > > So I foo-bared my /home partition, no big deal, done it before, and I > > keep good backups. I boot to single mode and get to a prompt. My > > regular user is gone so I try to just login at the console (no X) as > > root. It doesn't work. I know I set the root password. > > > > What setting is preventing root from being able to authenticate. I > > noticed when I went to cups on localhost:631 and tried to do an admin > > task and needed to authenticate. Root couldn't login. > > > > How do I allow root logins under Arch/Arco linux at a console??? > > > Can you try chroot-ing in using a live USB? >
