* Problem loggin asor ot @ Cheryl Homiak ` Gregory Nowak 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Cheryl Homiak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I have a friend who hasa debian linuxs ystem and can not log in as roto. She can log in with her normal user name;I have an accounto n her box and she can log in with that. But any attempt to log in a s root ends in a log in failure; the same happens htiw usandhs e deosn'a tppear to have sudo on her machine. I've hcecked thta she's typing eht correct password and that hte caps lock key is off. i've also searched tihw google and haenv'tf ound a solution that seemed relevant. It seems htat somethiis gnmilar once happened to me wehn I wasd oing an upgarde, but she wasn't upgrading ro updating; last night her password worked dna today when she booted it didn't. Any suggestions as to waht may hae happeenda nd is there any way to restore roputi n a new password since sh cean' tget root access? Thanks. -- Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. www.freedombox.info ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Problem loggin asor ot Problem loggin asor ot Cheryl Homiak @ ` Gregory Nowak ` Gregory Nowak 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fortunately, I haven't had to do anything like this, so what I'm about to describe hasn't been tested by me. However, your friend should be able to boot from a rescue cd of some sort, make sure that she's root on that cd, and mount her / partition somewhere. Then, chroot into that mount, and issue passwd. Like I said, I haven't done this myself, but it should work. Greg On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:55:08PM -0400, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I have a friend who hasa debian linuxs ystem and can not log in as > roto. She can log in with her normal user name;I have an accounto n > her box and she can log in with that. But any attempt to log in a s > root ends in a log in failure; the same happens htiw usandhs e deosn'a > tppear to have sudo on her machine. I've hcecked thta she's typing eht > correct password and that hte caps lock key is off. i've also searched > tihw google and haenv'tf ound a solution that seemed relevant. It seems > htat somethiis gnmilar once happened to me wehn I wasd oing an upgarde, > but she wasn't upgrading ro updating; last night her password worked > dna today when she booted it didn't. Any suggestions as to waht may hae > happeenda nd is there any way to restore roputi n a new password since > sh cean' tget root access? > > Thanks. > > -- > Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. > www.freedombox.info > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFGR/kJ7s9z/XlyUyARAoNEAJiMM6eXuosUlG4lY6f/JCWY3vI9AJ43msHi mGTCd6LdLwku5k+LpLoVeQ== =Gfb4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Problem loggin asor ot ` Gregory Nowak @ ` Gregory Nowak 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A couple more comments, sorry about the double post. I did want to point out that even though your friend hasn't changed her password, it is possible that /etc/shadow and/or /etc/passwd got corrupted. Also, in the correctly spelled second thread, someone suggested using single user mode. However, as far as I know, you still have to login even then, so that might not work. Greg On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:52:09PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Fortunately, I haven't had to do anything like this, so what I'm > about to describe hasn't been tested by me. However, your friend > should be able to boot from a rescue cd of some sort, make sure that > she's root on that cd, and mount her / partition somewhere. Then, > chroot into that mount, and issue passwd. Like I said, I haven't done > this myself, but it should work. > > Greg > > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGR/rP7s9z/XlyUyARAqLDAKClv43NO7hmt9sOQIfPtk0updSIbQCfeLPa lg/bb/ON52nBpodyNFvMVaY= =tmsk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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