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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