> On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 13:11, lrnobs wrote: > > > > Startup, login as root - ok, login as user - ok, try to login again > > > > as root - login incorrect... > > > > I reinstalled RH 7.3 and in the process my startup defaulted to run level 5 > > and took me right into gnome. I ran this way for awhile as I was working on > > Samba. I could login as user, and back to root without a problem. > > > > Since this pc is destined to be a server I changed run level in inittab back > > to 3. The root password does not work problem came back. I switched back > > to run level 5 as the default run level and there is no problem logging in > > back and forth. > > > > Any more ideas? I found something in a google search about NIS causing this > > behaviour but I believe NIS is something I have to intentionally enable. > > ps -A doesn't show anything called NIS running. > > > > I really have no idea. Are there funky characters in the password? > Could it be a keyboard mapping thing in that X is sending differenct > characters than the VC? > > There is definietly something to be learned here I just don't know what > it is going to be. > > What happens if you boot into single user mode and change the password > to root there and then try it? > > Bret
Booted to single user mode. Logged in as regular user, then login login: root PAM-securetty[407]: Error opening /etc/securetty I looked at securetty with ls -l securetty while logged in as same regular user -rw------- 1 root root 114 Jun 13 2001 securetty cat securetty gives me: cat: securetty : Permission denied Thanks, Larry Nobs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
