I remember seeing this post a while back and thought nothing of it other than "that stinks." Well I installed Bastille myself and I have the same problem. I can't log in as root. At the graphical login screen, everything looks normal. I can log in to my user account, no problem. I can su to root, get into drakconfig, and all that other good stuff. But, when I try to use the graphical login screen to log in as root, I get a login failed message as if I were typing in the wrong password. But, it's not the wrong password and the right one works everywhere else. Bastille was the only thing I installed between the last time I went in as root and now. I attempted going through all the rules for Bastille and changing all the ones that seemed likely to affect the login attempt. My thoughts right now are to uninstall Bastille and see if that works, but I'm not familiar with doing packages thru the console. If that doesn't work, I'll reinstall mandrake :^( But I come to the list for help so that I may avoid reinstalling. Anyone have anything that can help? Thanks, Hans -----Cut----- From: Duke Glover Subject: [newbie] Can't log in to root account Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:46:00 -0700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Hello Linux gods, Mandrake Linux 7.0 I made the mistake of running Bastille Linux 1.1.0 on my machine. Anyway, ever since I rebooted I can no longer login to the root account. Does anyone know a way around this ? Without root access I can't do anything. There may be a "uninstall/undo" in /root/Bastille/ , but I can't even get into that directory. Please help. How can I reset a root password without root access ? Duke Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
