Re: [cobalt-users] admin & root pwds don't match

["Gilles Dumangin" <gilles_dumangin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have just done that and it did not work, SSH stills refuses root password 
in su

If anybody knows how to fix this, please email me.

Thanks

Gilles


> From: Peter Low <peterlow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] admin & root pwds don't match
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:15:17 -0500
>
> If you change the admin password through the GUI, the root password should
> change as well.  Try changing the password for admin so that it is 8 or
> fewer characters.  The GUI will accept passwords with >8 characters (I
> think it may truncate to 8).
>
> After you change the password to 8 or fewer characters, try to telnet/SSH
> in as root.  If you cannot, I'd guess that the mechanism that keeps the
> admin and root passwords synched is broken.  Unfortunately, I don't know
> how this works or how to fix it.
>
> Peter
>
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