Re: root password issue

Rainer wrote:

sebas22 wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:02:46 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras
<realnc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe you have a keyboard layout active that results in different
characters? Try writing the password in the username field to see if it
really is what you expect it to be.

No, that's not the problem, I had the same behaviour myself : I
couldn't start YasT, the pwd was always wrong, but I could su without
pb, so I had t open console, su, then start YasT and it was OK. It was
neither because of the case of the pwd (all chars were lowcase and I
tried with and without shifting), nor because of any special chars
(there were none), just a weird behavior. I've tried of course to do
the same as Mike (log as root and change password) but it didn't
result either.

As it was a few days old install, I solved it using the brutal way :
Reinstall :-(
BTW, it was OpenSuse 10.3


try to check /etc/sudoers.

Maybe you have a line saying

<login name> ALL = (ALL) ALL

In that case, try with the password belonging to <login name>

Regards, Rainer


here is my /etc/sudoers:

# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification
Defaults targetpw # ask for the password of the target user i.e. root
%users ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING! Only use this together with 'Defaults
targetpw'!

# Runas alias specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
# %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now

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