-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi. It sounds as if somehow the root password got changed, or perhaps your friend ran a passwd -l root accidentally. In any case, I'd ls -l /etc/passwd, to see if it was recently modified. To reset the root password again, you'll probably have to talk your friend through single-user mode. Or if worst comes to worst, boot a liveCD, chroot to the HD with the system on it, and run passwd to reset the password. Hth. - - Igor On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:00:34PM -0400, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I apologize for the garbled message sent previously. I was typing on > freedombox with key echo on and had awl sorts of transpositions and > missing spaces. Tried to do another email and the same thing was > happening. I have to use freedobox mail because somehow emails to me > from this list and some others are bouncing on my Charter account. > Turned off key echo and now everything seems to be fine; don't know if > it was something in freedobox Key echo, my keyboard, or what. > Admittedly I didn't spellcheck before sending but my spelling isn't THAT bad!!! > > I have a friend who suddenly can not log in as root. She can log in > with her normal user password or with mine; I have an account on her > box and maintain it for her. But logging in as root fails both from the > console login prompt and with su; she doesn't appear to have sudo. I've > checked that she's using the correct password and that caps lock is > off. Does anybody either have an idea what might have caused this or > how we can solve the problem so she can log in as root? She can't fetch > packages because she's using root to start her ppp connection. She > hasn't upgraded for a while so it's not some new package she added > causing the problem. > Thanks for any help and sorry again about the last post; I checked it > this time but now i'm paranoid!!! > > -- > Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. > www.freedombox.info > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBRkfGp6e2pgKIdGq4AQrHAQ//S+IiMp+C+F7RffVgBNyb7hQ/bQp2+2Ps klpZL/FD2SXHjUFgeO4i/YYtLLpFFxYh+V6Uz/WywOXR8nbdQURNP3/w/wCqw8JJ HP+ddtUOw/nTHs7fF/bmPLlzLHAkWsZbp3N98pdlmHl+xeZ8QeYPNqix+VpcdjCy mEDECJm4Z4b7H7MkLkjy9CtqI1lp7V7afJVER4WCktwSNQ/LYFveTbscPfO8xmr0 5C9geem7SWvbwqXPY36K8KKcpSaEmH2JoTpDxKqxMqHAO7k/zrJYZo3bUFjaOKzi XXJpeQ0R6AvJkGsyotpSewK4f4cB3kmSGpqP5R/2eNxxYRdyr4khrzZKLTemABMS 8oejNpPCRaV5yWQ6QMSM1j/NgW9mnfjq9mNSIPwV7LP6a0PawZo1zwlNFbCNLQeD qBmON4f0BSJAhSPncX3VY+1wZKzZ5yrYdnwG5TKCgyUP3H2vGjxnYLI69meejoMA hrYOlonldD6wYbig6YDN7ClRa4TD7qR9utsGT1+zwI5l0BVsxDlFtR7dKbKWGQkM PDfjsgZC8oTKj3GC5rES//HzlN69/7KnGzq5/B/njRDxkDlOvyf2VkwbO784XLf1 qhGA6CAHrkAWFck0nYAdzMsKbgkgXCiw/orSUI2gasTLTV5SRF/VveTniGXF7UU+ 4niL3cczZm0= =iY1a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
