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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att-out!pacbell.com!tandem!gumby!chopper
- From: chopper@gumbytsg.tandem.com (Michael Chop)
- Subject: Problems with root passwd!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.213521.26689@tandem.com>
- Sender: chopper@gumby (Michael Chop)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.252.132.117
- Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:35:21 GMT
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- One of our mips machines is experiencing the following problem
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- The user(also a super user) couldnt log in as root as his root passwd was
- not being accepted. He tried su but that was of no help.
-
- So I went down to single user and removed the root passwd. I then tried to
- set a new root passwd.
-
- Everytime I did a
- # passwd
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- I would get,
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- New passwd:
- Re-enter new passwd:
-
- #
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- I would be dropped back to the root prompt before I could enter the new passwd.
- The passwd field in the /etc/passwd file would then be filled with some
- garbage passwd.
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- I also tried to login as a normal user but was facing the same problem.
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- Any suggestions on what possibly went wrong and where???
-
- Thanks in advance...
- harini chandra
- tandem computers
- oltp unix-support.
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