You could chroot from a liveUSB or better your old hdd and check you have /etc /root and /home/dale in place and the contents and access rights have been copied over correctly - rsync should do this fast enough. Before you start nuking things indiscriminately please note your /etc/fstab is now different(?).
Alternatively, you're into checking /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, / etc/pam.d/* to see what may have been missed out and copying over or perhaps reinstalling whatever package may have gone bad. On Monday, 17 March 2025 03:50:05 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > New problem. As I mentioned in another reply, I booted the NAS box to > update my backups. The thing won't let me login. I type in root, it > sits there for 20 or 30 seconds then returns to a login prompt. I also > tried the user dale but no joy there either. I'm back to spinning rust > to update my backups. > > Now what in the heck causes that? I'm about ready to just reinstall the > OS. This copy process just isn't working well. If it's not one thing, > it's something else. > > Thoughts? Just reinstall and get it over with? LOL > > Dale > > :-) :-)
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