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why it is so?? what could be the colution.My password is correct,i provided this while installation and i have tried it more than one time,so i am sure that there is no typing mistake.
What looks weird to me is that you seem to already be on a console, logged in, so why would you login again on the same console? Are you logged in and wanting to su to root to perform an installation or so?
I made following change to the /etc/passwd file.I added /sbin with a hope to avoid setting PATH every time i need a command from /sbin but i ended up with following:
Code:
Code:
[avi@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
su: /bin/bash:/sbin: No such file or directory
i cannot delete that entry from /etc/passwd as i cannot login as root.
Bad luck, you're not in the sudoers list. So you only got the option to boot in single user mode or from a CD as indicated by Miss Divyashree and John VV.
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