[25725] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.30: login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Jun 23 20:29:27 2004
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:29:22 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@mit.edu>
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How many characters is the root password? And what versions are the
machines? ISTR a problem where this happened if the root password was
greater than 8 characters. Try setting the root password to something <=
8 characters and see if that fixes it.
-Jon
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Ken T Takusagawa wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Greg Hudson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 18:57, Ken T Takusagawa wrote:
> > > Can't log in as root. (However, I can log in as root on the X window).
> >
> > Can you elaborate on this, please? Was there an error message?
> >
>
> "Login incorrect". I'm pretty sure I'm typing the password
> correctly; and I can replicate the behavior on two different
> machines (both Athena linux 9.2).
>
> --ken
>
>
