On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:50:41PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Further to the problem described in the first post to this thread, I > have progress of a sort to report. > [cut] > > At this point I entered the root password but it was not accepted. I > then -- as Gary Golden suggested -- rebooted using finnix, which allowed > me to log on as root without a password. Using the command passwd I was > able to re-enter the root password. > > I rebooted once again using squeeze, got as far as the maintenance shell > and was asked for the root password. I entered the password, which > I now knew was the right one, three times; but it was not accepted. Just to clarify things, you did change the password for the root on your installation, didn't you? That is, you didn't just change the password for root on the live CD, which was then lost as you rebooted? -- Darac Marjal
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