log in trouble on fedora 8
 

ok i just installed fedorea 8 froma live cd and it installs fine and everything and i set up my udername and password... then it gets hard... i shut downa nd take out the live cd.. boot up and the log in screen comes up.. i type in my username and my password PERFECTLY and it still denies me.. anyone pls help

I haven't used the Fedora live CD, but most live CDs will not retain their settings after a reboot because nothing is written to the hard drive. You can verify this by seeing if there is a directory in /home for your username. Hope this helps...


Joe

You can boot into single user mode and take a look around...maybe add a user that way

Based on the amount of typo's in your first post, I don't think you can state without a doubt that you typed the SAME password on install that you are trying now (perhaps your keyboard is messed up). You can boot into single user mode and take a look around, but that too will require a password. If you can't log in with root after booting normally, you will not be able to boot to single user mode and log in either.

Proposed solution:

Boot with the live cd, mount your / partition somewhere. Find your shadow file (not the one from the live CD, the one your system actually uses), it should be /path/to/where/you/mounted/etc/shadow. Replace the root entry with:

The password will now be "temp1234" without the quotes.

Reboot normally, change your root password to something better, and fix the passwords for your other users.

HTH

Forrest

If you're truly a newbie, it might be worth pointing out that Linux (any Unix) is case-sensitive, so check the kybd for caps-lock during passwd setting and usage.
Also, this is a good background article (Linux is Not Windows): http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

ok i got my problem figured out.. and none of the stuff yall tole me wordked because it wasnt a complicated problem... all i had to do was log in as root and create a new user without a group... thanx for the help though...

You never said you could log in as root. That would have made things a lot easier to fix.