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Are you sure you are using the same password you specified during the installation, in the same case? If everything else fails,<br />
you could boot the system in single user mode (if you use LILO and normally type 'linux' to load Linux, you would now type 'linux single') and reset the root password with 'passwd'. Or use a rescue disk.<br />

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Are you sure you are using the same password you specified during the installation, in the same case? If everything else fails,
you could boot the system in single user mode (if you use LILO and normally type 'linux' to load Linux, you would now type 'linux single') and reset the root password with 'passwd'. Or use a rescue disk.


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Thanks for responding. &nbsp;Once in linux single I typed passwd at the bash#. &nbsp;It said &quot;Segmentation Fault&quot;. &nbsp;I tried &quot;adduser neil&quot; and it said &quot;In: /etc/passwd: No such file or directory /etc/passwd is locked. Try again Later.<br />
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Help!!!!<br />
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Neil<br />
nlubin@hotmail.com <br />

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Thanks for responding.  Once in linux single I typed passwd at the bash#.  It said "Segmentation Fault".  I tried "adduser neil" and it said "In: /etc/passwd: No such file or directory /etc/passwd is locked. Try again Later.

Help!!!!

Neil
nlubin@hotmail.com


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If you boot from diskette, make sure you are trying to access the right file.<br />
Sometimes a boot disk mounts your harddrive under /mnt instead of /.<br />
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Are you sure you /have/ a /etc/passwd file?<br />
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If you boot from diskette, make sure you are trying to access the right file.
Sometimes a boot disk mounts your harddrive under /mnt instead of /.

Are you sure you /have/ a /etc/passwd file?



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Ensure that your hdrive is getting read-write and not read only<br />

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Ensure that your hdrive is getting read-write and not read only


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Everything goes smooth until locallogin. I enter root and my password or no password but it only tells me that my login is invalid. What do I do? I am a newbie, so any step by step directions would be helpful.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Neil Lubin<br />
nlubin@hotmail.com 
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Everything goes smooth until locallogin. I enter root and my password or no password but it only tells me that my login is invalid. What do I do? I am a newbie, so any step by step directions would be helpful.

Thanks,
Neil Lubin
nlubin@hotmail.com 

RH 4.2 won't let me past login!

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