Re: Root password does not work

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 13:11, lrnobs wrote:
> > > Startup, login as root - ok, login as user - ok, try to login again
> > > as root - login incorrect...
> 
> I reinstalled RH 7.3 and in the process my startup defaulted to run level 5
> and took me right into gnome.  I ran this way for awhile as I was working on
> Samba.  I could login as user, and back to root without a problem.
> 
> Since this pc is destined to be a server I changed run level in inittab back
> to 3.  The root password does not work problem came back.  I switched back
> to run level 5 as the default run level and there is no problem logging in
> back and forth.
> 
> Any more ideas?  I found something in a google search about NIS causing this
> behaviour but I believe NIS is something I have to intentionally enable.
> ps -A doesn't show anything called NIS running.
> 

I really have no idea.  Are there funky characters in the password? 
Could it be a keyboard mapping thing in that X is sending differenct
characters than the VC?

There is definietly something to be learned here I just don't know what
it is going to be.

What happens if you boot into single user mode and change the password
to root there and then try it?

Bret