Monte Milanuk wrote:
> Don't know if anyone else has had these problems. I did a
> quick scan thru the expert and newbie archives and didn't
> find anything mentioning these problems specifically, so
> don't shoot me if this has been answered before.
>
> When doing an install of LM 7.0-2, I chose 'expert' and
> went about my merry way, up until the part for configuring
> LILO. I wanted to make it so LILO would require a password
> to boot in single-user mode. I entered the password I
> wanted, clicked 'restricted', and o.k. Well, then I get an
> error message telling me that I must supply a password to
> be able to enable the restricted option. Fine. I go back
> and reenter the password. Same thing. WTF?
>
> Also, I found out the hard way that the installer doesn't
> like some root passwords. The one I initially entered was
> '$6gd2w!' (doesn't matter, since I've since changed it.)
> Then when I reboot the system at the end of install, I try
> to log in as 'root'. No go. Fine, probably just have to
> log in as a normal user first, then 'su' to root. No go
> either. I couldn't reach the root account any way at all.
> I go back, reinstall, using a password of 's6gd2w', and it
> works like a charm. It would seem to me that there is a
> slight problem w/ the installer if it locks the root user
> out because of the password!
>
> Monte
>
> =====
Seems to me that "$" is an illegal password character and can't be used. I seem to
recall that passwords MUST
start with a letter.
So the installer isn't broke, you just supplied an illegal password for root.
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