[ILUG] root problem

[Gary Coady]

On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 07:53:40AM -0400, Eric Rahn Nolen wrote:
> 
> If this is a Red Hat install you can boot to single user from the LILO:
> prompt with:
> 
> linux single
> 
> Then you can passwd to make your changes and reboot and all should be well
> again.

Hmm but if the machine DID ask for a password there (as mine does), what
is it calling as? ie what pam settings does it use? Why I'm asking is that
the single user prompt NEVER accepts the root password for me, so I always
have to use that init=/bin/sh hack. The 'login' entry in pam.d is

#%PAM-1.0
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
password   required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok use_authtok
session    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so

and that looks okay... where should I look for the problem here? Is it
using one of the other files for pam settings? It's a RH 5.1 machine,
upgraded to 5.2, and I can't actually remember if it ever worked
correctly...

Thanks,
Gary.

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