i want to change the root password for i.e my actual root password was XXXX
i tried doing something like :
"agent3@linux-bzf1:~> su -
Password:
linux-bzf1:~ # passwd
Changing password for root.
New Password:
yyyy "
did the reenter passwd stuffs…
then i did a reboot saying that yeah i’ve changed the password,
but SURPRISE,now i got 2 root password,weird??!?!?!?!?!?!
help please 
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What makes you think you have two root passwords?
Good luck.
On 11/01/2010 07:06 AM, y0 gesh wrote:
>
> i want to change the root password for i.e my actual root password was
> XXXX
> i tried doing something like :
>
>
> "agent3@linux-bzf1:~> su -
> Password:
> linux-bzf1:~ # passwd
> Changing password for root.
> New Password:
> yyyy "
>
> did the reenter passwd stuffs…
>
> then i did a reboot saying that yeah i’ve changed the password,
> but SURPRISE,now i got 2 root password,weird??!?!?!?!?!?!
>
> help please
>
>
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well for i.e when i get to the Terminal i can type both "XXXX’ or “yyyy” to become superuser. how come?
y0 gesh wrote:
> well for i.e when i get to the Terminal i can type both "XXXX’ or
> “yyyy” to become superuser. how come?
well, because your system is very badly broken (i guess)…
the questions are:
how did that happen?
when did that happen?
what happened?
all questions i won’t begin to try to answer with my practically zero
knowledge of your system.
but, i guess you either installed from garbled install media, or did
something to break the system.
i think you might find this information very helpful in solving your
problem: http://is.gd/2BfI3
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
On 2010-11-03 14:41, y0 gesh wrote:
> well for i.e when i get to the Terminal i can type both "XXXX’ or
> “yyyy” to become superuser. how come?
(Please, trim your quotes)
I would have a good look at the password files (man 5 passwd). Maybe you
have two entries.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
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It may be useful to see your /etc/nsswitch.conf file and possibly the
contents of your /etc/pam.d directory. It’s POSSIBLE but really weird
that you could be pointing to multiple authentication sources (files and
ldap) and have it setup so that if one fails it checks the other, though
usually users like root are not in those other systems because nothing
works if root is not local.
Good luck.
On 11/03/2010 08:35 AM, DenverD wrote:
> y0 gesh wrote:
>> well for i.e when i get to the Terminal i can type both "XXXX’ or
>> “yyyy” to become superuser. how come?
>
> well, because your system is very badly broken (i guess)…
>
> the questions are:
> how did that happen?
> when did that happen?
> what happened?
>
> all questions i won’t begin to try to answer with my practically zero
> knowledge of your system.
>
> but, i guess you either installed from garbled install media, or did
> something to break the system.
>
> i think you might find this information very helpful in solving your
> problem: http://is.gd/2BfI3
>
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