Well, these are all good ideas. But A) I have used this
password before on Mandrake 6.1 (okay, MacMillan 6.5),
RedHat 6.0/6.1, SuSE 6.3, Freesco, e-smith, etc. Never a
problem until Mandrake 7.0. Perhaps these others were too
liberal w/ accepting passwords, but this many is odd (to
me, at least), and B) It is _very_ unlikely that I had the
caps lock on. I use a Happy Hacker Lite keyboard, and it
is Function+Tab to get the capslock on, not something you
do w/o knowing it, usually. Plus I tried caps already,
sorry for not mentioning it.
Monte
--- Gavin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you may have hit the caps lock when you typed the root
> password in the
> installer - happens all the time.
>
> Gavin
>
> > 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
>
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"Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBZZZZAAAAPPP!!!...much <snicker>"
What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a
bored electrician ;)
Monte Milanuk
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