Hello

I just installed Red Hat 9 in my computer. Installation process was
successful. After rebooting the machine, as it asked for login(which is
su)and password (the root password which I had enetered while
installation), I typed all correctly, but the it won't log me in.

I turned off the machine and installed the software again, and same
problem. It won't log me in. I wrote down my password when I entered
during installtion process in case I forget the password. But I did
type the correct and same root password at the prompt.

Any help and suggestion would be appreciated.

Antilis

On 2005-07-23, antilis <newoxygenlife@yahoo.com> wrote:
> successful. After rebooting the machine, as it asked for login(which is
> su)and password (the root password which I had enetered while
> installation)

su is not an account, is a command. I suggest you use 'root' as login,
unless you defined another account.

> Any help and suggestion would be appreciated.

RTFM

Davide

--
Can you SysAdmins tell me what might go on in a typical day?
Hours of endless frustration punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
--Saul Tannenbaum

antilis <newoxygenlife@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just installed Red Hat 9 in my computer. Installation process was
> successful. After rebooting the machine, as it asked for login(which is
> su)

No it isn't. The login is "root".

> and password (the root password which I had enetered while
> installation), I typed all correctly, but the it won't log me in.

No you didn't, and yes it will. Make sure the password does not contain
any illegal characters. Make sure you do not use the numpad. Check
caps.

Peter

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
news:3v49r2-ea9.ln1@news.it.uc3m.es...
> antilis <newoxygenlife@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I just installed Red Hat 9 in my computer. Installation process was
>> successful. After rebooting the machine, as it asked for login(which is
>> su)
>
> No it isn't. The login is "root".

And Peter once again misses a possibility. There is a command called "su"
for becoming other users, typically the root user. The administrative
account that has all privileges is called "root". It has a userid of 0, and
a groupid of 0, and has complete access to every file on the machine (unless
you start encrypting things).

But RedHat 9 strongly encourages you during installation to set up another
user account, a non-root user. It's possible to call that user "su" and give
that account a separate password, and if antilis is trying to mix and match
account names and passwords with that one, he'll have a problem.

>> and password (the root password which I had enetered while
>> installation), I typed all correctly, but the it won't log me in.
>
> No you didn't, and yes it will. Make sure the password does not contain
> any illegal characters. Make sure you do not use the numpad. Check
> caps.

Which is potentially slightly vaguely useful, but leaves antilis
re-installing from scratch. This is not helpful. For example, "illegal
characters" are rejected by the RedHat password creation utility at OS
install time, as I remember.

Antilis? You can use the RedHat installation CD, or network installation
tools, to boot the system in "rescue" mode runing from the OS on the CD.
This will typically also mount the computer's disks at "/mnt/sysimage". You
can then do a "chroot /mnt/sysimage" to put you inside the operating
environment of the mounted directories, and have the full OS that you
installed at your fingertips, but with you logged in already as root with
the kernel on the CD, not the kernel in /mnt/sysimage.

You can then type "passwd root" to reset the password. I do urge you to
avoid over-long, difficult to type passwords, and to use passwords at least
six characters long that are not a real word or quote of a common phrase, nd
that mix upper and lower case or numbers. But avoid punctuation, it can just
cause interesting keyboard problems.

begin update_outcrap.vbs
In comp.os.linux.setup Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net>:

> "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
> news:3v49r2-ea9.ln1@news.it.uc3m.es...
>> antilis <newoxygenlife@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I just installed Red Hat 9 in my computer. Installation process was
>>> successful.

Congrats, now install some recent distro, rh 9 isn't supported
anymore officially from rh, there are still some unofficial
patches http://fedoralegacy.org/, but if you do a fresh install
it's obvious you want something recent. Fedora Core 4, if you
like rh, or check out www.distrowatch.com for others.

>>> After rebooting the machine, as it asked for login(which is su)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^

>> No it isn't. The login is "root".

> And Peter once again misses a possibility. There is a command called "su"

After rebooting "as it asked for login [..]", you can't use any
command before you did login.

Trying 'su' as username would at least explain the OP problems.
Perfectly good advice, perhaps the OP can come back and clear
things up?

> for becoming other users, typically the root user. The administrative
> account that has all privileges is called "root". It has a userid of 0, and
> a groupid of 0, and has complete access to every file on the machine (unless
> you start encrypting things).

> But RedHat 9 strongly encourages you during installation to set up another
> user account, a non-root user. It's possible to call that user "su" and give
> that account a separate password, and if antilis is trying to mix and match
> account names and passwords with that one, he'll have a problem.

>>> and password (the root password which I had enetered while
>>> installation), I typed all correctly, but the it won't log me in.
>>
>> No you didn't, and yes it will. Make sure the password does not contain
>> any illegal characters. Make sure you do not use the numpad. Check
>> caps.

> Which is potentially slightly vaguely useful, but leaves antilis
> re-installing from scratch. This is not helpful. For example, "illegal
> characters" are rejected by the RedHat password creation utility at OS
> install time, as I remember.

> Antilis? You can use the RedHat installation CD, or network installation
> tools, to boot the system in "rescue" mode runing from the OS on the CD.
> This will typically also mount the computer's disks at "/mnt/sysimage". You
> can then do a "chroot /mnt/sysimage" to put you inside the operating
> environment of the mounted directories, and have the full OS that you
> installed at your fingertips, but with you logged in already as root with
> the kernel on the CD, not the kernel in /mnt/sysimage.

> You can then type "passwd root" to reset the password. I do urge you to
> avoid over-long, difficult to type passwords, and to use passwords at least
> six characters long that are not a real word or quote of a common phrase, nd
> that mix upper and lower case or numbers. But avoid punctuation, it can just
> cause interesting keyboard problems.

Not stripped, maybe someone has kill-filled the guy?

--
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mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 64: CPU needs recalibration

"Michael Heiming" <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message
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Michael, can I talk you out of including this sort of prefix to your
messages? It causes some mailers to see the rest of your message as an
attachment, which is a shade irritating to deal with. I realize your message
is text and am not deeply concerned about it, it's just a bit irritating if
I happen to read my email with my dreaded game machine runing Windows.

In comp.os.linux.setup Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net>:

> "Michael Heiming" <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message
> news:lqo9r2-jsm.ln1@news.heiming.de...

> [ message that starts "begin update_outcrap.vbs" excluded ]

> Michael, can I talk you out of including this sort of prefix to your
> messages? It causes some mailers to see the rest of your message as an
> attachment, which is a shade irritating to deal with. I realize your message
> is text and am not deeply concerned about it, it's just a bit irritating if
> I happen to read my email with my dreaded game machine runing Windows.

It came somehow to my mind that B. G. resolved this outcrap bug
recently, took only a few ages but rumors are he finally got it
fixed. So be his guest, startup you doze update client and
probably prepare for one or another reboot. ;-)

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 423: It's not RFC-822 compliant.

begin On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:43:52 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>
> "Michael Heiming" <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message
> news:lqo9r2-jsm.ln1@news.heiming.de...
>
> [ message that starts "begin update_outcrap.vbs" excluded ]
>
> Michael, can I talk you out of including this sort of prefix to your
> messages? It causes some mailers to see the rest of your message as an
> attachment, which is a shade irritating to deal with. I realize your message
> is text and am not deeply concerned about it, it's just a bit irritating if
> I happen to read my email with my dreaded game machine runing Windows.

Maybe microsoft needs to fix their problems instead of forcing others into
a corner.

--
Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

"Baho Utot" <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
newsan.2005.07.23.13.08.13.513107@columbus.rr.co m...

> begin On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:43:52 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> Maybe microsoft needs to fix their problems instead of forcing others into
> a corner.

Maybe Linux supporters shouldn't deliberately try to break things for other
people for no good reason? The "corner" in question is using uuencode-like
text for a message that is in fact flat text.

Thank you very much all of you for your support and help. I was able to
log in finally.

NEW PROBLEM:
-------------

I have a new problem now. Probably it would seem as 'my ignorance' to
other people which I will accept as a blame.

After I logged in as root and with correct password, I got a propmt
[root@localhost root]# which seems to me normal. But how can I get
into the all the fun of GUI that Red Hat offers. Is there anyway I can
get into that? any command? or do I have to make any changes?

Thank you all once again for your help

antilis


antilis wrote:
> Hello
>
> I just installed Red Hat 9 in my computer. Installation process was
> successful. After rebooting the machine, as it asked for login(which is
> su)and password (the root password which I had enetered while
> installation), I typed all correctly, but the it won't log me in.
>
> I turned off the machine and installed the software again, and same
> problem. It won't log me in. I wrote down my password when I entered
> during installtion process in case I forget the password. But I did
> type the correct and same root password at the prompt.
>
> Any help and suggestion would be appreciated.
>
> Antilis