My computer hang. So I had to restart it. As a result one of partitions was damaged. When I got to check of that partition the program said that i have to run fsck manualy. The prompt said to enter root password or press Control-D to start normaly. However, the prompt whould not accept my root password. I use shadow plus MD5 passwords. Root's password is longer thna 8 characters. Pressing Control-D whould just restart computer.
Weird; we haven't experienced this problem here (unless it was on a Sparc). If all else fails, you can boot with 'linux init=/bin/bash' to get a prompt. ------- Additional Comments From 10/19/99 11:10 ------- I think i fugured out this one. I looked into init scripts and found out that if there is a problem with disk script runs sulogin. After checking out the source for sulogin. I found out that it will accept only up to 15 characters of password. Mine is 18 characters. The RH6.0 manual states that MD5 passwords can be up to 256 characters.