I did it to myself again :-( I don't know how I did it, but I did it and I need Help. Here is the situation. I must like to torture myself. After getting my office server set up, I find I have an old 486 w/32 meg and 3Gig lying around and I thought it would make a good name server/mail server or whatever. So I loaded Mandrake 7.0 (Air) i486 on it. Everything was going fine. I shut the machine down a day or so ago. When I fired the box back up today, I could not log in as root. So I decided to try to log in as another user. I did -- it worked fine. Next I decided to see if I had a root password problem, so I tried su and entered the root password. It worked fine! So I spend another 10 minutes with modprobe trying to figure out what type of ethernet card I have in the box (no markings on card) and find the 82596 module works just fine. So now back to my root login problem. I still can't login as root! No matter what I try the following is what happens: login: root password: (I enter the root password - I know it works because su works) login incorrect So I need to know: (1) Am I totally whosed? (reload required) (2) If not, is there a way to fix this? (3) If so, what's the fix? Any advise would be welcomed. I don't want to have to torture myself reloading the entire system on a 486 -- It takes a long time with an 8x CDROM, but not near as long as it did with a 4x. -- David Rankin Nacogdoches, Texas
