On 3 Apr, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: > At the login: prompt on the console, when I type in root, I get > another login: prompt back !! No prompt for password nor a > error message (nor a successful login). > > Yes, there is a root user account, and a password. (Checked it > by booting of CDROM, chosing 'linux rescue' at the prompt and > checking the installation under /mnt/sysimage/...).
I had a similar problem with RH 7.2 - one of the accounts I created couldn't login. A friend told me that the old-style crypt password stuff had been broken, and that the easiest thing to do was to change over to the newer-style passwords. (Old style has 8 character maximum significance, newer style has much more.) Sorry I can't remember any more details than that. Did you choose the older style of password when you installed? If you did, it's probably that. (For me, 2 out of the 3 accounts could login, and one couldn't.) I also had that problem after forcing the install of a whole set of corrupted rpm files. That caused one of the NIS libraries to make programs like "login" dump core. In fact, that was what led me to install 7.2 - I'd just trashed my 7.1 system. (I lost no user or /etc files though, since /home was on a separate partition, as was /usr/local, and I copied off /etc before doing the install.) luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
