Re: [SLE] Root password corrupt?

From: Ken Schneider (suse-list_at_bout-tyme.net)
Date: 05/26/05

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Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 07:25:58 -0400

    On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 01:26 -0400, suse_gasjr4wd@mac.com wrote:
    > Problem box-
    > Standard install...not too much funky but all suse stuff. 9.0 - all patches
    > Dell Precision 420
    > 2XPIII's 867(?)
    > 512 ram
    > Onboard SCSI
    > (On APC battery backup)
    >
    > This is the third time I can't log in as admin on this box. I figured the
    > first time I forgot the password, the second time I made it simple (it's a
    > internal file server for a few people) but this third time I wrote it down!
    > During the installs, it asks me if I want to encrypt the passwords, I hit
    > yes. Is that a mistake? I don't remember exactly what type of encryption it
    > asks to use.
    > I'm getting tired of doing reinstalls. I'm running 9.0 on this box. Has
    > anyone else had this issue? Luckily the shares are on another drive...I
    > don¹t even share the boot drive.
    >
    > Even sitting right in front of the box, my password doesn't work. (and yes,
    > I checked caps lock) ;\
    > It isn't anyone messing with it. I'm basically the only one messing with it.
    >
    > The box runs fine...stock Dell...but it has to be corruption...
    >
    > *Would changing keyboards and mice all the time affect it? I don¹t keep them
    > connect until I need to...most of the time it's up and running...and I may
    > not use the same ones.
    >
    >
    > Anything before I reinstall the OS???
    >
    >
    Try to ssh into the box first, just in case it is a problem with
    unplugging the keyboard. 

    -- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998
 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
  the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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