ROOT Username not recognize & Others
 

Hi!

It's me again he9x. I've had my 40gb harddrive last night partitioned because I'm trying to dual boot windows 2k & Slackware 9.1. First I installed win2k on the first 10gb. Then after setup, reboot & den setup Slackware, I've used all the remaining 30gb for it. Then I used FULL installation of Slackware. The first odd thing that happened is that I didn't encounter the part where it should say that i have a windows partition or that a windows is installed, in my past experiences on this it always prompts for that & it will ask you were to mount it. Then another thing is that when I was about to setup the root password It always says about
"Username not recognized" or something like that & just says Press Enter to continue & then goes back to the Enter Root Password again, with options Yes & No. So after 4 times of trying Yes, I decided not to enter root password because if I choose Yes It wont let me enter it & just the message about the User not recognize is displayed. And then I finished the setup, upon rebooting I CANT LOGIN!! I dont know, I tried to login as root & I just pressed Enter for the password because I didnt enter any password, but it just wont login. I tried to boot the cd again & hoping I could solve the problem by mounting the /dev/hda2 <- root partition & then I go to passwd, I open it & then saw that sshd is the only thing listed there. Then I saw "passwd.new" I open it & then I saw accounts there, & saw the root:x:00 line part. I deleted the 'x' after root: I remember it is the password part Im not sure about it, hoping it would do the trick, but still after rebooting I still can't login, & also the only thing on my LILO menu is Linux, it wont show the Windows OS. Whew! It's the first time I've encountered all of this he9x. Hoping for your replies Sir/Mam. Thank you so much again!!!

Ryan

First, you are trying to login at the wrong time and place. The lilo screen is not for logging in. If you've done a normal installation, all you have to do at the lilo prompt (boot: ) is hit ENTER. Then you'll(hopefully) begin to see the kernel being loaded into RAM and then your file system gets mounted, init runs and all the boot messages go by. Then when all is stopped you'll see the login prompt.

usernames must be all small letters -no capitals allowed. And passwords can contain small letters, capitals and numbers -they SHOULD have at least one capital letter or numeral or adduser will complain about a 'weak password' and make you enter it a total of three times.
Don't manually edit the passwd or shadow files unless you know what you are doing or how to restore them. These two files work together -you've told passwd that root has no password (sort of), but shadow says that it does. Even no password gets a special entry for null_text_password, which is not a blank string.

Hi!

Thanks for the reply. I don't mean the boot: part for lilo, I mean entering the root password during installation. The last part of the installation process where you should give the root password. I hope I've explained it well. The part where the installation requires you to have a root password just displays Username not recognized. Anyways I've read some articles that says that the ISO I've downloaded could be corrupted. especially the Disc 2 of Slackware 9.1. I've downloaded 9.0, the say Oracle 9.2.0.4 would install just fine on it. Thank you so much again!

Ryan