Bug 22539 - su or root password keeps getting deleted/changed?
Summary: su or root password keeps getting deleted/changed?
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: linuxconf
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Need Real Name
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-19 17:36 UTC by Kevin McGonigal
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-01-16 19:31:32 UTC

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Description Kevin McGonigal 2000-12-19 17:36:10 UTC 
I work at Intel as a technician and I keep having problems when I update 
certain products of losing my root or su password. Is there a workaround 
for this? I can sign on under a different user but it says "The 
directory /tmp/orbit-kevinmac is not owned by the current user kevinmac. 
Please correct the ownership of this directory." I guess because I always 
use root to logon. I did just install helixcode and vmware but I dont see 
anything wrong that I did. Please help, I need info on this system. Last 
time(1 week ago) this happened I had to rebuild this system.

Thank You
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-16 02:55:13 UTC 
Which product updates are causing these problems?  Do you have all of the
relevant errata updates applied?
Comment 2 Kevin McGonigal 2001-01-16 19:31:28 UTC 
I have all the updates. What initially hosed it was the helix code update. I 
have deciphered that the drive must
have bad blocks. I ran linux single at the boot screen to change my root pwd.
Thanx
Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-17 18:28:00 UTC 
I'm glad that that has resolved the problem, but still somewhat concerned about
it even happening.  Still, there's not much I can do to resolve such a bug, so
I'm going to mark this as WORKSFORME.
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