Bug 22539 – su or root password keeps getting deleted/changed?

Bug 22539 - su or root password keeps getting deleted/changed?

Summary:	su or root password keeps getting deleted/changed?

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	linuxconf (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported:	2000-12-19 12:36 EST by Kevin McGonigal
Modified:	2005-10-31 17:00 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-01-16 14:31:32 EST
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Description Kevin McGonigal 2000-12-19 12:36:10 EST

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 2001-01-15 21:55:13 EST

Which product updates are causing these problems?  Do you have all of the
relevant errata updates applied?

Comment 2 Kevin McGonigal 2001-01-16 14:31:28 EST

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 13:28:00 EST

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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