Login to CLI and GUI are not working after reset and reboot

[gdanielnelson]

Proxmox 2.1 was installed and VMs created, working for weeks in lab.

Sent to client and could not login anymore.

Did the GRUB single user boot, mount, passwd and was able to login to CLI.

Rebooted and can no longer login to CLI or GUI.

If I have physical access to the box, how am I suposed to reset the root password and is it then synced with the GUI authentication automatically?

Need some help so we don't have to completely reinstall.....

 

[udo]

Proxmox 2.1 was installed and VMs created, working for weeks in lab.

Sent to client and could not login anymore.

Did the GRUB single user boot, mount, passwd and was able to login to CLI.

Rebooted and can no longer login to CLI or GUI.

If I have physical access to the box, how am I suposed to reset the root password and is it then synced with the GUI authentication automatically?

Need some help so we don't have to completely reinstall.....

Hi,
password for gui and cli-login is the same (pam/shadow).
Any errors from the bad logins before in syslog/messages if you boot to single-user?
Is the keyboard right? (do you have special character in the PW?


Udo

 

[gdanielnelson]

Hi,
password for gui and cli-login is the same (pam/shadow).
Any errors from the bad logins before in syslog/messages if you boot to single-user?
Is the keyboard right? (do you have special character in the PW?


Udo

I will look at the syslog, but regardless of what is there......

Is the proper procedure to 1) boot to single user mode, 2) mount o remount rw / and then 3) run passwd?

Is that all I need to do? Is that passwd also used for the default GUI login as root?

Thanks!

 

[udo]

I will look at the syslog, but regardless of what is there......

Is the proper procedure to 1) boot to single user mode, 2) mount o remount rw / and then 3) run passwd?

Is that all I need to do? Is that passwd also used for the default GUI login as root?

Thanks!

Right,
the gui can use different authentications - pam is the normal system authentication (normaly against shadow).

Udo