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SNP

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From: Athens / Greece

Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 18

[SOLVED]Problem with su! Can't login as root!

Hello! My first post here and as the forum's section implies, I'm the newest newbie on the block!

Now on to my problem :X

I freshly installed Arch 64 yesterday with X and openbox. Everything looked ok, su worked fine in vc and urxvt too.

I use startx to enter openbox, so sometimes i used su in the VC to make pkgs etc. Well, sometime yesterday evening, su in the VC refused to accept my root password. I also tried logging out and logging in as root but that didn't help. As if I was typing the wrong password (which I wasn't of course).

The peculiar thing is that as soon as I started x and opened urxvt, su worked fine. Up till some minutes ago that is. Now i can't su not even through urxvt!!

I changed grub's booting options adding the option "single" in the end to boot into single user mode and used passwd to retype my root password. The process went ok, but I still can't login as root

auth.log with my unsuccessful  VC logins as root:

Dec  6 06:09:19 ArchSNP login[6627]: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=vc/1 ruser= rhost=  user=root
Dec  6 06:09:23 ArchSNP login[6627]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on 'vc/1' FOR `root', Authentication failure

and my unsuccessful SU commands through urxvt:

Dec  5 21:24:56 ArchSNP su: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=0 tty=pts/0 ruser=pro rhost=  user=root

I can't login as root atm :<

Thankfully I gave some sudo privileges to my user and I can reboot/shutdown/leafpad and find stuff, but that's it

PS.1 I should add that I used an FTP install on Arch 64 so everything should be up-to-date.
PS.2 Don't pay attention to the date/time logged, I changed the clock/date sometime between the two log entries :>

Last edited by SNP (2007-12-05 21:48:31)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with su! Can't login as root!

PS.2 Don't pay attention to the date/time logged, I changed the clock/date sometime between the two log entries :>

I don't know crap about your problem, but I do know that the date and time has a lot to do with how computers work. A lot of programs rely on the time and current date, if this changes too much(like too a time in the past) u can lose a lot of program functionality.

SNP

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From: Athens / Greece

Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with su! Can't login as root!

Well i fixed the problem, booted into single user again and used passwd and it was fixed this time.

Sorry about all the fuss