On Wednesday 28 March 2001 01:52, you wrote: > I did it to myself again :-( I don't know how I did it, but I did it > and I need Help. > > Here is the situation. I must like to torture myself. After getting my > office server set up, I find I have an old 486 w/32 meg and 3Gig lying > around and I thought it would make a good name server/mail server or > whatever. So I loaded Mandrake 7.0 (Air) i486 on it. > > Everything was going fine. I shut the machine down a day or so ago. When > I fired the box back up today, I could not log in as root. So I decided > to try to log in as another user. I did -- it worked fine. Next I > decided to see if I had a root password problem, so I tried su and > entered the root password. It worked fine! > > So I spend another 10 minutes with modprobe trying to figure out what > type of ethernet card I have in the box (no markings on card) and find > the 82596 module works just fine. > > So now back to my root login problem. I still can't login as root! No > matter what I try the following is what happens: > > login: root > password: (I enter the root password - I know it works because su works) > > login incorrect > > So I need to know: > (1) Am I totally whosed? (reload required) > (2) If not, is there a way to fix this? > (3) If so, what's the fix? > > Any advise would be welcomed. I don't want to have to torture myself > reloading the entire system on a 486 -- It takes a long time with an 8x > CDROM, but not near as long as it did with a 4x. > No you are not hosed You probably set security to HIGH. Root logins are not permitted in high security. Learn su it is your friend and you can do everything root needs to do right from a terminal with su. ALSO, load Webmin. That allows a graphical configuration from another machine via web browser (and you can use our most recent, because it is a noarch style rpm) to do all your configuration and maintenance, even setting up cron jobs and special commands or causing a reboot. Civileme > David Rankin > Nacogdoches, Texas
