[Doctor Orange]

I have just installed slackware 10.0 and i cant log in as root (or anything else for that matter).
It usually goes like:

Computer Login: root  
Password: (the password i set during installation)   
last time logged in...  
You've got mail.   

[quirky saying]    

Computer Login: ROOT!!!!  
Password: (again, the password) 
last time logged in...  
You've got mail.   

[quirky saying]    

Computer Login: WHY WONT YOU LET ME LOGIN AS ROOT!?!?!?!?  
Password: ArghgH!
Incorrect Login.

When i boot off the cd i can log in as root, but thats good for fdisk and nothing else :0P
I think i might be getting booted from the system, because i do get the 'mail' so i must be getting logged out or something....
Any ideas why this might be happening, or even better, how to fix it?

Thanks

[lordnothing]

login with a liveCD... mount the partition with /etc on it... edit /mnt/blah/etc/passwd and make sure that the last part of the entry is /bin/bash or /bin/sh that is the shell for the user... the entry will start with the word 'root' (w/o quotes)...

sorry for the lack of punctuation, but a couple of my thoughts ended with a pathname, and i didn't want to confuse you by adding punctuation..

[Doctor Orange]

Thanks alot for that lordnothing.
Il try it out when i get home.

How do i 'mount' a partition on a liveCD?

Thanks again for the help.

[Doctor Orange]

root:0:0::/root:/bin/bash

In file:

/mnt/hdd1/etc/passwd

Is that any help?
Thanks.

[Doctor Orange]

I just reinstalled without setting a root password and its still doing the same thing!