Thanks - I've done that. I had initially rewritten shadow with just a
clone of one of the lines for one of the other users in the shadow
file, namely:
root:NP:6445::::::
Which didn't work. My old shadow file had the following for root:
rot:v.kMMas3...... :6445::::::
Where the ..... indicates more characters. Is this line itself borked?
I installed twice to make sure it wasn't something I was doing wrong,
and it did exactly the same thing - i.e. not accepting the password I
had set.
Cheers
Andrew.
Dennis Clarke wrote:
Hmm, looks like command line logins are borked as well, with and without my
shadow file edit.
Is this fixed in build 46?
you're killing me
I swear
its like watching a car wreck in slow motion
okay .. with that out of the way maybe I can help.
so, what did you do? Did you set your root password with some numerics
during the early install process and didn't have the num-lock on the
numeric keypad or something similar ?
doesn't matter at this point anyways
look .. can you boot the CD 1 ISO into single user mode and then
mount the root slice from the actual VM drive ?
usually I work with "real" servers so I don't know how to do that.
we need to clean up your /etc/shadow file for you okay ?
and you don't know how to use vi ? holy ... this is a real process.
maybe we can get you a simple command sequence to run
like :
grep -v root shadow > /tmp/rootless_shadow
/usr/bin/echo "root::13380::::::" > root_stuff
cat root_stuff rootless_shadow > new_shadow
then just copy that new_shadow into the place it needs to be
am I helping here ?
Dennis
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