Help can't login!

[Bahn, Nathan]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interestingly Su asks for passwd, and gives authentication failure, su
pete asks for psswd, then let's me in switching to tty7 then trying to
login gives no output on tty1, but doesn't let me in
>
> Thanks
> Pete



If my understanding is correct, then your attempt to login as root failed ("
*su*") but your login attempt as pete ("*su pete*") succeeded.  This
suggests to me that your root password is corrupted.  Sorry, but I'm all
out of ideas.
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