Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Norberto BENSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Patrick Börjesson} Thursday 05 June 2003 05:08 pm > > Any ideas on how to solve this issue? > > This should work: > 1. Boot up from Live-cd > 2. Mount and cdroot to your root-partition > 3. Change passwd for root > 4. Unmount and reboot > Too complicated. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread David
Right, that is usually what happens. Logout as user and back in as root. Then set the permissions backup again. On Thursday 05 June 2003 05:25 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I had this problem a while back. It was that I was removed from teh wheel > group. I could log on to root in a console, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I had this problem a while back. It was that I was removed from teh wheel group. I could log on to root in a console, but not su. Try it. HTH Mike On Thursday 05 June 2003 06:14 pm, Eric Marchionni wrote: > hi > > i think you should report this to the gentoo bugs team. > otherwise more people

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Eric Marchionni
hi i think you should report this to the gentoo bugs team. otherwise more people will also experience this problem... regards, eric Mike Arrison wrote: Paulo, I had this problem too. It came from not being careful enough with the etc-update procedure after upgrading dhcp. I believe that

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Arrison
--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paulo, I had this problem too. It came from not being careful enough with the etc-update procedure after upgrading dhcp. I believe that one of the ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Thanks all for all your help. I did this and now I'm able to login as root again. :) Best regards, Paulo Matos > > __ > > From: Patrick Börjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Su

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> I have Gentoo Linux installed in my PC and today I did as usually su - > root to change to root. I entered the password for root, and emerged > dhcp. After that I exited root and since then I was enable to enter as > root. It's just not accepting my password, which is extremely odd. > I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:00:39 -0300 Norberto BENSA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Patrick Börjesson} > Thursday 05 June 2003 05:08 pm > > > > Any ideas on how to solve this issue? > > > > This should work: > > 1. Boot up from Live-cd > > 2. Mount and c