[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#565927: Bug#565927: Debian Linux 5.0

[Nicolas François]

notfound 565927 5.0
found 565927 1:4.1.1-6
thanks

Hello,

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:55:28PM -0500, pinkpan at tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> 
> I have but one problem. I installed the 5.0 from the internet CD.
> Everything appears right and it boots to an X screen to login. The
> problem is I can not login as root, even at the console. I did
> answer "Do you want ROOT to login at console - YES". I can login as
> someone else, su to root, but many items are very difficult, if not
> impossible to use without an X version of the utility and quite a
> number, you MUST be ROOT to use them.

This is not sufficient for me to reproduce your issue.

It is quite common that root is rejected by X login.
But, you should be able to login on the console.

Can you check your /var/log/auth.log or /var/log/syslog for any reasons for
the rejection of the login?

Can you provide the result of
	sudo chage -l root

Do you have any special PAM module, any configuration that would differ
from a normal install?

Can you check the result of:
getent passwd root
sudo getent shadow root

Do not put the result of these 2 commands in your reply. They may contain
your root's password.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral