Yo, Just installed 9.1 Pro. New installation so no conflicts with my old system. Default install. Installation went fine (until the monitor setup, which has been a problem with every SuSE release I've used, and I knew how to fix that afterwards). The problem, and it's an irritatingly serious one: Not sure what's causing it, but for some reason my system seems to forget where to look for passwords. I auto-login to KDE with my user account. That works fine, which is how I'm able to send this e-mail. The first couple times I used kdesu and su, it accepted my root password fine, including for YaST So I have all the latest updates via online update as well. But then it suddenly starts giving me "incorrect password" errors after a few times. It doesn't remember my user password either, as if I end the session and try to log in via kdm, I get incorrect password on both the user and root. I tried restarting and going into init 3 instead of the usual 5, to see if it was a KDE issue. But no, I get "incorrect password" in console mode as well. I know I'm using the right password... as I said, the first couple times I tried su and YaST and etc., it was accepted. I never tried changing the password. And I can't try now... in the case of root, I simply can't access root now because of this, and if I try to change the user password, I have to verify the current password, which it won't accept. I tried installing on my old junk laptop, and the same problem happened! Reinstalling didn't help either. Where do I start to figure out this issue? Esp. keeping in mind I can't access root. :-/ Thanks, Joe
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 19:27, Joe Sullivan wrote:
Not sure what's causing it, but for some reason my system seems to forget where to look for passwords.
Still not sure what caused this, but I finally got it working... 1) Rebooted using the option "init=/bin/sh" 2) From the shell, mount -o remount -w /dev/hda3 (since it was read-only) 3) pico /etc/shadow ... removed the encrypted passwords for both root and user, so neither had a password. Trouble: Rebooted into init 3, could log into both without passwords. Changed the passwords on both. But when I restarted again in init 5, the passwords were hosed again. So I repeated 1-3 above. Then rebooted into the normal init 5. I set passwords from there in KDE using the "Change Password" in the System menu. This has apparently worked. No longer having the issues. But really, no clue what caused this. Never seen it happen before, and I've been on SuSE since 7.3. Ah well, at least I can finish installing all the stuff I need now. :-) Joe
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