Re: root login

[Tiemo Krueger - mycable GmbH <tk@mycable.de>]

Hmm, I remember that we had once a similar problem, but I can't remember 
the reason
nor the solution. It appeared that we where not able to login as root, 
but user login was possible.
Logged in as user I was allowed to 'su' to root.
Perhaps this may be a hint, perhaps not, perhaps Bruno remembers the 
solution???

Tiemo

David Kesselring wrote:

>I apologize for the many recent questions but I have another trivia
>question for all of you. :-)
>I have installed the RH7.3 miniport to a harddrive connected to a MIPS
>Malta board. The kernel the comes with the port (2.4.18) works fine. I
>then took the cvs code (2.4.22) for mips and built it for malta. The first
>few builds worked ok (which means I could logon as root). Then I changed
>something in the build process so that now the kernels which I build won't
>allow me to logon as root. I've changed /etc/passwd to eliminate the root
>pw. Does anyone know how a kernel can affect the login like this?
>Thanks,
>
>David Kesselring
>Atmel MMC
>dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com
>919-462-6587
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