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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] password problems
  • Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 12:49:52 -0700

Quoting Kevin Augenstein <kevin.augenstein AT gmail.com>:
> I have a question it might be just general Linux and not sourcemage
> specific. Anyway, recently I installed source mage from an iso
> (approximately a week ago). Yesterday I was using sorcery to get some
> new pages when my power was cut off, now I can't log back on as root
> (the only account available at the moment as I'm still setting up the
> machine), it just gives password denied or the usual error message. I
> was pretty sure I hadn't forgotten the password as it's the same one
> I've used daily for numerous years and had logged in many times to
> this machine using it. But anyway I booted on a rescue cd then did the
> following to try and change my password
>
> mkdir /tmp/rescue
> mount /dev/hda2 /tmp/rescue
> chroot /tmp/rescue passwd
>
> and typed in another password. I checked the passwd file had changed
> and rebooted. It still doesn't work. Does anyone know what my of
> caused this (is it possible sorcery was in the middle of updating
> something critical to checking passwords?) and more importantly does
> anyone know how to fix it.

Are/were you using linux-pam? Have you tried a `cleanse --fix` after chrooting
in with a rescue disk? That should find if there are any corrupt/missing files
that Sorcery has installed. Anything in /var/log that might help?

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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