Problem loggin asor ot

Problem loggin asor ot

[Cheryl Homiak]

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.

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Re: Problem loggin asor ot

[Gregory Nowak]

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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.
> 
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Re: Problem loggin asor ot

[Gregory Nowak]

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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:
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> 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
> 
> 

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