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Insane-Boy

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Registered: 2006-02-27

Posts: 243

unable to login as a root

Well, i've been unable to login as a root, though i could use the root account through sudo.What I mean is that i just can't login as a root, although i my password is quite ok.I remember having touched a setting related to permission of root login, however, i have rather dim recollections about which option is related to my issue.Could somebody give me a helping hand?

qaov

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Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 12

Re: unable to login as a root

You have sudores setup. Maybe you should chroot from livecd and change password

jdarnold

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From: Medford MA USA

Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 485

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Re: unable to login as a root

Well, you use your password when you use sudo, but you need to know the root password if you are logging in as the root user, which is a (hopefully) completely different thing. Sure you know your root user password?

thestinger

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: unable to login as a root

if you can use sudo, you can use passwd to unlock the root account with 'sudo passwd -u root' (assuming you locked it, ! symbol in /etc/shadow), or give it a new password 'sudo passwd root'

you can also "sudo su" to switch right to the root account (different that 'sudo -i' which is just a superuser session)

also maybe you did something with pam or the root login shell?

edit: 'sudo pwck' will verify integrity of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow so that might also be helpful

Last edited by thestinger (2010-04-29 19:41:31)

sica07

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Registered: 2008-06-06

Posts: 29

Re: unable to login as a root

if you can use sudo, you can use passwd to unlock the root account with 'sudo passwd -u root' (assuming you locked it, ! symbol in /etc/shadow), or give it a new password 'sudo passwd root'

Thanks thestinger! That solved my problems with the root password.