I can not entered root password via terminal while doing this it replied incorrect password even same password can be used from another GUI box. When I tried to use command Clt+Alt+F1, only black screen comes. I am using coreutils 8.4-9.fc13 from fedora of 32 bits
View 2 RepliesI'm using rhel 5, when i'm working in terminal first i typed su command and by mistake i entered copy command and some other characters, after realising i've made a mistake then i came out and continued with copy command in terminal.
after some time when i tried to login by using su and with password it says "incorrect password". So i logged out and entered root login for gui and it works well, but i'm not able to use the same password for su. can some one get around this issue?
I'm trying to install Skype on an Aspire One netbook, it shows the file in the downloads section but every time I click on it it asks for an administrator password. If I put this in the window closes and then comes up asking for it again a few seconds later, but if I put in the wrong password it gives me the option of changing it, but still won't allow me to run the programme
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to say hello for all as it is my first post. I have CentOS 5 I recently changed my root password. When I try my new password it doesn't work. For changing password first I connected using ssh connection I logged in. Then typed on shell passwd then the system asked me "new password" then asked "type it again" at the end I got successful message.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI am an absolute Linux Beginner who is being required to do a bit of admin work because the boss just fired the old linux admin. Unfortunately, one of our employees cannot remember her password to her email account and as such I need to reset it on our linux server.What I want to check is that this email account is actually a linux user account and I simply will reset the password for it using the passwd command from the root login. Is that correct?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am working on a Dell Inspiron 9400 with 9.10 installed and (thus far) working quite well. However, when I type in a command into Terminal (I was trying to install Amarok), the terminal asks for my password and the entire keyboard stops working. As in, I can hit any numerical or letter key, and nothing happens in the terminal but the blinking cursor. The specific command was "sudo apt-get install amarok", and then it asks for my password, and I'm not able to make an entry.
I've tried changing to a couple of the different Dell laptop keyboards in System>Preferences, but again, before typing the command into the terminal, everything is working fine (inside AND outside of the terminal). After the password prompt comes up and the keyboard stops working in terminal, all the character keys still work fine still outside of the terminal.
i used opensuse 11.1 ...there is option for root user to create password for root...but for ubuntu i did not find anything like that...so how can i create root password....or how can i use root
View 1 Replies View RelatedReinstalled Debian Squeeze (64bit/gnome) on my Notebook using Netinstall. Everything worked like always but in the setup instead of typing in a root password as asked to i just pressed enter (in the hope of not having to type in a pw in the console later, just having to press enter then)
When i needed rootpw to install some software (using SoftwareDownloader) the normal loginpw seemed to work, but not in the console.
ari@HP625:~$ su -
Password:
su: Authentication failure
[Code]....
sometime ago i have setup a nice Debian FTP server. and left the company. everything was working fine for about 5 month, administrator was able to login to root, do changes and manage system, etc. Suddenly he told me that he cannot login via PUTTY, the root user and pass say Access Denied.Looked all over the web for at least a REASON, but did not find anything. I suggested to go and do passwd reset, via runLevel 1. i hope this helps him. But i am still curious why all of the sudden, in a locked down room, where only one person has access root get disabled.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was trying to edit a file requiring root permissions, so I used sudo. I typed the root password and it failed. This happened three times, and the process was ended. I then logged in as root (su) and was able to navigate to the file and make changes as root. Am I missing something? How would I edit the sudoers file such that this password would work? Or is there another way to log in to the sudo group to make these changes? How do I set sudo passwords?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I installed the OS, I wasn't prompted to set the root password. Is this a bug, or did my install hose up?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have one of those ultra reliable Ubuntu servers in the corner that I never have to logon to because it never needs anything. I needed to check up on it today and my root password would not work. I am absolutely sure I did not forget my password and because I am the only Linux guy in the office I am sure some nimrod didn't get his fingers in the machine. I attempted to enter GRUB recovery mode but when I hit ESC it says something about no disk and goes into the booting process. I attempted to use a desktop version live CD, but the file structure is unreadable, I assume due to the security of the server system. Before I rebooted it the server worked fine, Apache and PHP were working away. Now the whole thing is a 50Lb boat anchor. How can I reset the password when I cannot enter GRUB menu or use a live CD?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with sshd daemon on a target linux system:The system has only one user (root) without password.The sshd_config looks like:
Code:
Port 22
Protocol 2
[code]...
I am trying to log into a server with a particular account. Let's say I don't know the password for that account. Can I do this using ssh? I am wondering if it is possible to do it in one command, instead of logging in as root and running su.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedYesterday I re-installed Musix over top of another installation of Musix using the keep files option.I did this because after it froze last night it would boot up properly.I got that problem fixed and I still have all of my files and settings but I am having one problem now:root has a password and I can't guess what it is.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using openSUSE 11.1 and I've lost my root password.The following didn't worked :-
Restart
give parameters " 1"
press e
press b ...
I'm trying do some tests about recover root's password but I'm having some problems.My OS used to do the test is fedora 12.I'm trying to boot with ubuntu 10.04 and trying to recover the rot's password.When I edit /etc/shadown and erase the password field, the system can't logging anymore, all the other users cann't logging anymore.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedMy problem is music playback it seems to act as if it is buffering every few seconds ,at some point playback just stops and seems to freeze up the rythmplayer, I had the same problem with ubuntu, linux mint now I'm trying fedora 14 wich i seem to be having the best luck, with my msi 7142 M.B.I did find one forum here with that sounded much the same but was unsolved.
1: how do I get back in to the terminal as root ?
2: how do I check DMA on my cd/dvd -cd rom ? if thats the problem
3: could it be my sound card? turtle beach santa cruz [/B]
(right now the pc i was using to check out the the diff distro's is using debian so far it is playing a cd just fine, the problems seem to just be on my main pc)I really really could use the help I've been working on this for over a month,searching, reading threads, all I can to even just learn in hopes of escaping windows during this doing a duel boot caused windows to crash (kinda funny, but a pain, good thing I backed up my music.
What's the default root password in DSLinux, or in any Linux distribution?
I didn't set it.
When I run sudo as a normal unprivileged user, it asks for my password, not the root password. That's often convenient, but it reduces the amount of information someone would have to have in order to run commands as root. So how can I make sudo ask for the root password instead of the invoking user's password? I know it'd be done with a line in /etc/sudoers, but I can never seem to properly parse the BNF grammar in the man page to figure out exactly what to write.
View 4 Replies View Relatedregarding the file permissions of /etc/passwd in fact it has permissions like rw-r--r--so it says others have only read only permissions but my questions is if others has read only permissions on /etc/passwd file.how they are able to change their password i.e others are able to change their passwords then how it is possible.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow could I set screen resolution without root password. try to change the resolution since the default resolution setting is only 800x600.
View 12 Replies View RelatedWhenever I got to type the command below:
#iwconfig eth1 essid mynetwork key xxxxxxxx
#dhclient eth1
to use this command, i have to be in su or sudo. Is there a way I could allow all users to invoke these commands without the root password?? I try to make a file (wireless.sh), which consists the commands above, in /usr/local/bin/. Change the mode to 755 (chmod 755 wireless.sh) however, it does not allow me to use this also.
i am using ubuntu 9.10...i want to know if there is any way to get root password...
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