Have you changed your authentication method? In single user mode run authconfig and switch all besides the default authentication method. (Don't know if authconfig is available in 6.2 ??) Pierre de Witt "Scalone, Galen" <Galen.Scalone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 2004/12/20 09:50 PM Please respond to General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject RE: Incorrect Login for root Can you log in as a regular user, then su to root? /etc/securetty? -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben Russo Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:50 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx 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. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
