No root login to tty - default install

General system Installation
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Hi community,

i think my problem is because i’m inexperienced with endeavouros. I installed a fresh system. I noticed that sudo is active. It works so far correct. But i can not login at the tty shell on console with root. I renew the password for root to be sure I use the right one. I also controlled if there are keyboard problems but no.
I searched the forum and the internet how to activate root login but nothing worked.

What did endeavouros.configured to deactivated root login?

thanks.
lari

EDIT: Only root account cant login. I also can use su with normal user and it worked. I have nothing configured additionally. Its really a fresh installation. I will also mentioned the error message in the tty console: “Login Incorrect”

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We do not disable the root login.

Make sure it isn’t locked out with sudo faillock

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Show all accounts valid.

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If you can use su and it works it may be an issue with your keyboard layout in the TTY.

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no, i mentioned it in the first post. my normal user has the same password as root for simpler installation at the moment. This user can login without problems.

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Just to make sure we are using the same language, how are you accessing the TTY to test this?

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with Strg+Alt+F2 to 6 from the gui screen

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Don’t know exactly what you mean by Strg, but the key combination should typically be

Ctrl-Alt-F2 ... Ctrl-Alt-F6

Note that the combination can be limited.

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sorry…for german layout is Ctrl = Strg. :wink:

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Have you tried to simply write the password keys on the TTY?
This way you can see that the keys are the same on TTY and normal terminal.

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Yes I did. They are correct.

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Ok, that was just a simple check.
Another simple check: if you temporarily change the root password to something very easy, does that work with the TTY?

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No, I use “1234”. Same error.

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Does su -l work?

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yes

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I checked the passwd and noticed that as shell for root the entry is /usr/bin/bash. So i changed it to /bin/bash and the login works. I didnt changed that entry. My system was hacked I think. Really disturbing.

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/usr/bin/bash is exactly the same file as /bin/bash.
So that shouldn’t have been the problem.

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/usr/bin/bash isn’t in /etc/shells so it isn’t considered a valid shell even though it is the same file.

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That’s interestingly true and explains it.

The culprit seems to be why and who changed /etc/passwd.

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meanwhile i installed a fresh EOS as VM and the same problem occurs. I changed /usr/bin/bash to /bin/bash and it works.
I think dalto explains it correct. /usr/bin/bash is missing in the /etc/shells. But my question is why is /usr/bin/bash set as shell to user root. The other users get /bin/bash.