To fix it for now, you can remove the x in the passwd file for root, root:x:0:0:....... becomes root::0:0:.....
This will give you NO root password. You could then try logging in and running passwd to create a new one. Or you can put the hash into /etc/passwd directly, not shadow, instead of where the x is: root:(hash goes here):0:0:... Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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
