I need some help with Fedora. I am trying to reset the root password. When I tried to login I was not able to. I kept getting the authentication failure message. I got the password reset success message.
I then thought maybe the root account was locked. So then I Enabled root login with the guide below. And again I got the authentication failure message. Can anyone tell me why this happened and how to fix this?
I then created another root account with the guide below. I was able to login with this second root account. Can anyone tell me why I was not able to login with the original root account? Is there a way to fix the original root account so I can login with it?
Have you ever logged on successfully with root ?
It could be either the /etc/securetty file not allowing a root logon, or an entry in /etc/pam.d that only allows UID's >= 500 to logon. If it is the former, try:
and see if that makes a difference. If its the latter (cant remember whether Redhat and/or SuSE does this), try grepping for "uid" in the files in /etc/pam.d (probably either system-auth, or common-auth, or login, or gdm).
It should look something like:
Change it to:
And try again...
I know this is old but I think my problem is that gnome had the root account locked. This happened again on a new install and after I followed the directions of how to unlock I could use it .
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