General :: Authentication Failure For Root Logins (Fedora 12)?

Jan 20, 2010

I just got Fedora 12, and I used su root to change the bin ownership to my primary developer account. For some reason, though, all subsequent attempts to log in as root have had authentication failure, be it through su or through the startup login screen. This does NOT occur for adminstrator tools such as Groups and Users.

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Fedora Installation :: Logging In As Root - Authentication Failure

Dec 16, 2010

I have installed fedora 14 in my computer. I installed some applications from root. I created a user id. I am unable to install my internet (broadband connection) now. every time it shows the error "Authentication failure" "install from root" something like that. How can I switch between user and root. Or how can I login as root again?

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OpenSUSE :: Authentication Failure Of Root Password?

May 2, 2010

have been experiencing an error (the past few weeks) whenever I try to install a software package using the default installer. Each time I enter the root password it is not accepted and I am unable to get past it and the installation fails.This is the error message that is issued:[PK_TMP_DIR|dir:///var/tmp/TmpDir.mf2zCf] Repository already exists.I am able to enter the root password in a terminal session without any problem along with using the Install Software option in the main menu.

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Jul 29, 2011

I am trying to login as root but i end up with an error that says: su: Authentication failure

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Feb 19, 2010

I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 inside windows and every time I go to the terminal and type "su" it asks me for a password. Well the password I set before the install doesn't work, it gives me an authentication failure. I thought that since it was inside windows it didn't set me as a root user. I go to user groups and I see my name there and then "root" above it, but its grayed out. Is there a default root password I can enter?

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Debian :: When Open Up Konsole And Type 'su' And My Root Password - Authentication Failure ?

Apr 8, 2010

My system software is installed on an encrypted LVM on hda1 and hda2. My home directory takes up the whole of hdb1 which is also encrypted. I can boot up into the kde desktop okay, but when I open up konsole and type 'su' and my root password I get the message "su: Authentication failure". I am absolutely certain that I am using the right password.

Even more strangely, if I fire up synaptic and give it that same password I am able to install software. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what's gone wrong and how I can fix it?

I can also type Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root to do administrative tasks without any problems so I cannot understand why konsole has locked me out.

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General :: Root Logins Are Not Allowed \ When Try To Login As Root, After Logging Out As User, It Does Not Allow?

Dec 2, 2010

i just installed linux mandriva 2009. i set password for root and created a user account. when i try to login as root, after logging out as user, it does not allow me and gives the error "root logins are not allowed". even it does not show the root account. if i try to go to root from konsole terminal using su root, it allows to enter as a root but when i try to start the GUI with startx it gives error.not sure what to do and why i can't see my account in GUI mode

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Nov 5, 2009

Can someone tell me where the configuration file is to change root logins?

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Apr 5, 2011

I have just installed the latest version of ubuntu in my desktop (core i5 with 2gb ram, gnome desktop) when i try to log in root usin "su -" command....authentication failure occurs. what should i do ?....i distinctly remember root password and it is working otherwise like while logging in, opening install/remove software application etc.

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Fedora :: Authentication Failure In GUI

May 22, 2010

Im using FEDORA 12 (constantine )....Everything was working fine.....until yesterday when i tried login to my GUI(gdm) it says authentication failure. so i tried logging in from CLI and it didnt worked either...(it didnt say "password incorrect",rather it it simply reset the screen to "login name:",thats weird...right?)

Then i tried to login as root from from CLI (by default Fedora does not support root login to GUI?) and i was able to login.....

Then it said "System powering down in one minute"............. i didnt understand why that happened.....! but it didnt power down in one minute...

I tried changing my user passwd...still no change.....

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Fedora :: Authentication Failure After Upgrade

Jun 13, 2011

I cant access my box after upgrading from fedora 13 to 15 i wasn't near the computer during the process and i don't know if it asked for user and password ,but its upgrade and it need to have my old setting so why i'm not able to log in at all , even not as root.

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Fedora :: Authentication Failure On Pure-ftp Server ?

Apr 16, 2011

OS=FC14 x86_64
DM=Gnome

I've installed pure-ftp, and the firewall is open on port 21, the router has port forwarding.

I can connect to this machine, from my smart-phone and a laptop using its IP Address 77.xx.xx.xxx

I'm getting user OK but its not accepting my password or one I just made on another account

This is whats happening:-

What layer of extra security is stopping this working, as the guy attempting access is trying to send a file to big to attach to an e-mail.

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General :: Error - Su: Authentication Failure

Jun 16, 2010

i have been running Ubuntu for about 3 days now, finally getting all my files moved back to the drive and what have you.I came from running windows, and an Android phone with full su access, and done up all custom-like..I am loving the speed, etc. great experience so far. BUT: the headphone port on my laptop is broken, and so I run [ran] and external soundcard, a Creative X-fi 5.1 USB SC. I have found linux drivers for this unit, and am trying to install. I have googled the crap out of how to do this, yet am getting stuck.

Here is where I'm getting stuck. I have extracted the package, entered into the sub folder, and am trying to run the Make install:

...laptop:/tmp/xfi-0.0.0.0$ cd ./xfi
...laptop:/tmp/xfi-0.0.0.0/xfi$ su -c "make install"
Password:
su: Authentication failure
...laptop:/tmp/xfi-0.0.0.0/xfi$

what in heck do i type at password... have I NOT done something, am I doing something wrong.... it does not accept my normal password, so I am lost.

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Fedora Installation :: Enter The Password And Get - Authentication Failure - 12

May 9, 2010

I just installed Fedora 12 on HP Pavilion (dual boot with Windows vista). I made it all the way through the installation and created my user account. A few seconds later I got the login screen asking for my password. I enter the password and get "Authentication Failure."

The name that shows up on the login screen is my full name, not the user name that I created. Is that wrong?

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Sep 3, 2009

I was messing around with changing the dictionary for our PAM cracklib module and seemed to have stuffed something up.When I attempt to log in through a telnet session with any user that has a password I getAuthentication FailureThis session is no longer connectedI am still able to log in via the Web admin using the root user/password.I can also log in from a telnet session if the user has no password.

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Jun 3, 2011

I Configured LDAP Server on ubuntu Server 10.04 ,(using url ldap) and Client also it's working fine. After that I changed to ssl encryption and create certificate in server side. Now it's not authenticating from server it's shows Incorrect Password, but I can login though terminal if I am root user ,then it not ask any password it's logon to ldap user. After I changed to ldap server to ssl encryption and made one changes in client side uri ldaps://ip-address/ (/etc/ldap.conf).

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Apr 28, 2011

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Jun 4, 2011

I just started learning the Linux system and I installed Ubuntu 11.04 as a partition on my IMac. I want to change my authorization in the terminal to su - , but I keep being told authentication failure.

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Jun 13, 2010

I was having a problem with the keyring asking me for a password after I changed my user password. I googled it and found that since the password changed, I will get asked for the keyring password until I delete ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring. What happened was that I wasn't paying attention that you had to generate a new keyring password before rebooting.

Now, whenever I try to login via gdm, I get this message: error initiating conversation with authentication system - general failure

How do I get it working again? I can still login from the terminal.

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General :: Secure Box - Authentication Failure - Long Strong Password Can Stop To Prevent From Attacks?

Mar 17, 2010

we are using linux email server axigen past few years. we keep port open ssh and pop,smtp webmail etc. ssh use for remote trouble shooting. so through firewall it is globally accessable. we notice many attacks coming to our machine, also some people try to enter in our system but failure. as example see below a log come in messages file

Mar 17 09:19:50 sa1 sshd(pam_unix)[21231]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=210.51.13.120 user=root how we can secure more. as per my understanding only good long strong password can stop to prevent from attacks.

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General :: The KDE Login Screen Now Says "root Logins Are Not Allowed."?

Feb 20, 2010

Something has caused me to be locked out of root; the KDE login screen now says "root logins are not allowed." It's not as though I don't know the password--I set it up. I might have deleted something I'm not supposed to, because before this, root had also become invisible at the KDE login screen.

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Jul 3, 2010

I cannot login as root or su in graphical mode (haven't tested cmd line as i'm still newbie ). What i have read is that this is by default disabled... can this be enabled?.. if so how please? I am running core13 on toshiba laptop (this issue also on "live" cd)if above is not possible have u a section/training pages for us "newbies"

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Fedora :: 11 Gui Logon Not Authenticating (not Root) Pam Authentication To Kde?

Mar 5, 2010

after doing a partial yum update and configuring cyrus and installing splunk my server box is not logging in to any of the users i have setup on it.to setup the cyrus server i used pam authentication so my assumption it could be that or somthing with the splunk install which i left default to /opt/.im running an old kernel i think its fc11 29 .pae in my boot logs i dont see that anything failed to run but it still does't let me logonk

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Fedora Security :: Root Login Via Ssh 12 Password Authentication?

Jan 27, 2010

Can't seem to do it, wondering if anyone knows how? Normally there's something in sshd_config that can be switched to true or yes to allow root login but I can't see it in fedora 12.I can login via root at a terminal no problem, just not via ssh, I get access denied every time. Also, I need to login using password authentication.I've done: 227169 but that's just for GUI which I don't really need since I rarely ever log into the GUI.I have also searched through here and mostly only found info such as above, how to enable root login for GUI, or billions of posts about how logingin as root is bad but I cannotswer to my question.DISCLAIMER: Please do not reply to this thread if all you can contribute is the question of why I need root or to put some message telling me I can do everything using su, etc, etc. Please only contribute if you can answer my question. A: My machine and a valid quesiton. B: Spirit of Linux is open, not restrictive

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Nov 12, 2010

I was trying to install winbind on a RHEL5 machine and I had to reboot the RHEL machine. When it came back up, I'm not able to log in as root or any other user.When I use root and give a random password, it says invalid username or password but when I use the correct password, I get an Authentication failed pop up box (under GUI). SSh window says invalid password for random passwords and the SSH window disappears when I type in the right password.Can you please let me know if I can somehow get back in by stopping any of the services

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Fedora :: Gnome Root Password - Authication Failure ?

Jan 9, 2010

I just did a standard install of Fedora 12 including the specification of a root password and a user ID/Password.

When Fedora starts, it accepts the password for the user ID but it shows an authorization failure for the root passwword. However, in a terminal session the root password is accepted when I enter the "su -" command.

How do I get the Gnome Desktop to accept the root password?

Related to this is an interesting security issue when I use the "su -" command to switch to the root user in a terminal session. Apparently, I do not get full root privileges as far as Nautilus is concerned. Nautilus loads but has a very restricted range of files/folders. It won't let me access "Computer" so that I can drill down through "Filesystem", etc. In contrast, Gedit run from the terminal will allow editing of all files after I enter the "su -" command in the terminal window.

I have run "yum update" to install the latest version of all packages but nothing has changed. I'm downloading the DVD image of Fedora 11 but I hate to do a another total Fedora install if I can avoid it.

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Dec 19, 2010

How to disable the NTFS drives root password authentication?When I try to access the NTFS drives for the first time after logging in, the system is asking for root password authentication.How can I disable this?

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Ubuntu :: "error Initiating Conversation With Authentication System - General Failure"

Apr 13, 2010

Tried to make the /etc/pam.d/gdm mod to auto-auth keyring. Now when I boot up it says "error initiating conversation with authentication system - general failure" preventing me from logging in.

So I read that I can enter recovery mode by pressing Esc on boot up to boot to a root shell. However no amount of button mashing Esc on boot up seems to have any effect, always bringing me to the graphical login. I could boot to a liveUSB but this has all started when I got to work this morning, and don't have a USB key handy, and I'd like to get this sorted so I can do some work today!

And why does the /etc/pam.d/gdm tweak seem to be causing so many issues (googling reveals the technique has a lot of other users finding the same problem as me, however they seem to be able to get to recovery mode)?

EDIT: If I hold down or mash Esc fast enough, the computer will beep at me once or twice, but nothing changes on screen

EDIT 2: Ok found out that holding SHIFT is the new way of doing things, reverted pam.d/gdm to the backup and things are back to normal!

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Jun 1, 2010

I'm a long time Linux user. Finally got around to upgrading my Fedora 11 system to Fedora 12 by using the 'preupgrade' tool. The upgrade appeared to go well (downloaded packages, rebooted into installer, etc). However, now that the upgrade is complete, I'm unable to boot my system.

Here's my configuration:
/dev/sda (80Gb)
200Mb /boot partition (ext3)
52Gb / partition (ext4 - managed as logical volume)
2Gb swap partition (managed as logical volume)
20Gb /spare partition (ext3 - managed as logical volume) .....

All worked fine under Fedora 11 for the last few months. Grub now presents me with 'Fedora' and 'Windows XP' boot options. The /boot/grub/menu.lst file is essentially the same as it was for Fedora 11, except for the different kernel versions, etc. The boot sequence shows the Fedora bubble (??) and gets about 80% full when the screen goes black and the message displayed is:

No root device found
Boot has failed, sleeping forever
If I boot Windows, all works fine.

Am able to boot using a SystemRescueCD disk. The disks all look okay and I can mount/modify all partitions, etc. The grub menu.lst file read as follows (sorry, typed in, not copied):
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,0) .....

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Jan 14, 2011

I insert my F14 CD and booted the computer; I see the beginning of the installation and the the screen goes black and says:

No root device found.Sleeping forever. Boot failure.

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