Cannot logon using root or anyother users

Hi All

I am running RedHat Enterprise on my server, we recently had a powerfailure on the machine, now when we boot it up, it loads up to the logon screen but when we try to logon using root or anyother username it dosen't allow,

How can i login to the this server,

Can anyone help

Naba

What error message do you get when you try to log on?

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Steve Stites

It says cannot find users or password

you can try to login in single-usermode. then you can diagnose what's the problem with it.


Rizvi

How do i login using single-usermode

When you boot up and you see the boot options window choose the second line and hit "e" for edit, the add a space and a 1 after then hit "b" to boot. that should put you in single user mode as root.

If you are using GRUB, use the following steps to boot into single-user mode:

[1] Select Red Hat Linux with the version of the kernel that you wish to boot and type e for edit. You will be presented with a list of items in the configuration file for the title you just selected.

[2] Select the line that starts with kernel and type e to edit the line.

[3] Go to the end of the line and type single as a separate word (press the [Spacebar] and then type single). Press [Enter] to exit edit mode.

[4] Back at the GRUB screen, type b to boot into single user mode.


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Rizvi

Thanks ncsuapex, and thanks all

Thanks so much all i'm in