Bug 63808
| Summary: | root password not authenticated after installation | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Hial Colburn <hcolburn> | ||||
| Component: | pam | Assignee: | Tomas Mraz <tmraz> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | martin, m.kokinda | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-10-21 14:11:43 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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If "su" doesn't work I doubt it's a gdm bug. Must be something in how authentication is being done. Be sure you're "up2date" on pam and usermode. I have this same problem (also on an IBM Netfinity 3000). I have tried to run the pam and usermode but of course you need to be root to do so - at least I get errors on dependencies when I try to run the rpm's. Has this bug been resolved? Koke I think I finally figured out what was happening... During the installation, I de-selected MD5 and shadow password authentication, but then I entered a 9-digit root password. The installer accepted this and pressed on. As I understand MD5 (which is very little), passwords are limited to 8 characters or less. Once I rebooted the box into single user mode and ran authconfig to turn on MD5 and shadow, changed the root password and rebooted, I could login as root. It seems to me that if you will allow users to NOT use MD5 password authentication, you need to perform a check on the number of characters in the root password to prevent this problem from occuring. Hope this helps... (downgrading from security severity) *** Bug 63989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This works fine in Fedora Core 2. |
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