Problem logging in as root

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi. It sounds as if somehow the root password got changed, or perhaps your friend ran a passwd -l root accidentally. In any case, I'd ls -l /etc/passwd, to see if it was recently modified. To 
reset the root password again, you'll probably have to talk your friend through single-user mode. Or if worst comes to worst, boot a liveCD, chroot to the HD with the system on it, and run 
passwd to reset the password. Hth.
- - Igor
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:00:34PM -0400, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I apologize for the garbled message sent previously. I was typing on 
> freedombox with key echo on and had awl sorts of transpositions and 
> missing spaces. Tried to do another email and the same thing was 
> happening. I have to use freedobox mail because somehow emails to me 
> from this list and some others are bouncing on my Charter account. 
> Turned off key echo and now everything seems to be fine; don't know if 
> it was something in freedobox Key echo, my keyboard, or what. 
> Admittedly I didn't spellcheck before sending but my spelling isn't THAT bad!!!
> 
> I have a friend who suddenly can not log in as root. She can log in 
> with her normal user password or with mine; I  have an account on her 
> box and maintain it for her. But logging in as root fails both from the 
> console login prompt and with su; she doesn't appear to have sudo. I've 
> checked that she's using the correct password and that caps lock is 
> off. Does anybody either have an idea what might have caused this or 
> how we can solve the problem so she can log in as root? She can't fetch 
> packages because she's using root to start her ppp connection. She 
> hasn't upgraded for a while so it's not some new package she added 
> causing the problem.
> Thanks for any help and sorry again about the last post; I checked it 
> this time but now i'm paranoid!!!
> 
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