If you're worried about the bad password message ignore it. Mine always
give that but if you notice it updates your password anyway.
Try su - and see what happens.
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
On 5/8/2005 4:42 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote:
On 5/8/2005 4:20 PM Mike Williams wrote:
> On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
>
> > I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd.
'single' to the end of the kernel line in grub. Booted to single user mode
and issued 'passwd' command from there. It still doesn't work. My session
goes like this:
sh-2.05b# passwd
New UNIX password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word.
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
I get the 'BAD PASSWORD' message no matter what password I use. I tried this
one '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' which I'm sure is not in the dictionary but still got that
message. I don't know if that provides any clues or not.
To test the various new passwords, I used this string of commands after each
attempt to set root's password:
sh-2.05b# su <user>
su(pam_unix)[1911]: session opened for user <user> by (uid=0)
bash-2.05b$ su
Password:
setgid: Operation not permitted
bash-2.05b$
I repeated to two scenarios above with several different passwords. All
attempts failed. So I have a bright shiny new system that I'd just love to
be able to get in to. :) Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Drew
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