According to Regina Nelson:
>
> Hi...
> ...a little advice, perhaps
>
> Hour 2 has taken a little longer than it should....
> I've installed Red Hat Linux 5.0 and I've managed to load LILO and can
> either boot a DOS partition or the new LINUX partition. However, when the
> localhost login: prompt arrives and I type 'root' as instructed, and then
> enter the password, I keep getting Login incorrect.
>
> I've re-installed and checked the password, and am sure it's not that.
> Have I done something wrong? What am I missing?
>
This has happened to me. What I did was boot off the emergency repair
floppy, mount root, and eliminate the password from /etc/passwd. This
is a little tricky to describe because you have to know lots of gory
details about mknod/mount/sed/etc ...
Otherwise, I'd try to reinstall and not give root *any* password, if the
install permits this.
There may be other ways ... Good luck on 24 hrs!
73 de Jeff
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