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msummers80
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 Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: First boot after first build, Failed Login (Success!) |
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Thanks Nixnut!
Ok, I'm not sure If I set up my login information correctly when doing the install. Anyways, I tried root with a blank password, a password I use often, and nothing seems to be working. is there a default login name and password I can try?
SummersTux Login: root
password:
Login(pam_unix)[1150]: authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=/d ev/tty1 ruser= rhost= user=root
Login[1150]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/tty1 FOR root, Authentication failure Login incorrect
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nixnut
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: First boot after first build, Failed Login |
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| msummers80 wrote: | | Ok, I'm not sure If I set up my login information correctly when doing the install. Anyways, I tried root with a blank password, a password I use often, and nothing seems to be working. is there a default login name and password I can try? |
Don't be silly, this isn't windows.
You probably forgot something while configuring. Well, no problem, boot the livecd, mount your root partition on /mnt, edit /mnt/etc/shadow and clear out the password (the string between the ":" delimiters after "root:" . Then after rebooting the sytem you should be able to log in as root without password. Make sure you then set a password again for the root account!
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msummers80
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I am taking your advice to stop being stilly. I am now cool. 
I found the shadow file, and the root entry is:
root:*:10770:0:::::
So I'm not exactly sure, but are you saying to edit it to:
root::10770:0:::::
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root:*::0:::::
or something else altogether? |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| msummers80 wrote: | I am taking your advice to stop being stilly. I am now cool.
I found the shadow file, and the root entry is:
root:*:10770:0:::::
So I'm not exactly sure, but are you saying to edit it to:
root::10770:0:::::
or:
root:*::0:::::
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Change it to root::10770:0:::::. The "*" means that that account can't be used to login at all. Which is probably not what you want for root.
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| how do you mount root to /mnt? |
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| elde wrote: | | how do you mount root to /mnt? |
If your root partition is /dev/hda2 then you mount it on /mnt with mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
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