root password changing

I recently installed a new fedora system for my business.

never had a problem had a uptime of months until today.

we had a powercut for 2 hours and the UPS failed...

so after the power came back.. servers came up... cept one.

i went to investigate, seemed the root password was changed.

ok so i reset the password with single user boot, restarted worked fine.

just to test i restarted it again, then it seemed the password had been changed.

no other person had access to this server while i was working on it so it cant be anyone else changing it.

tested 4 times same thing everytime.
tl;dr password is changing when i restart wtf?
anyone know how to fix?
(using fedora 8)

So much for linux stability.

turns out both shadow files had been changed to read only..

some stupid security program must of done it.

or user error :)

>>2
It's a little-known fact Windows servers continue to run for up to fifteen days after the power has been cut, amirite?

You have to be a huge moron to even have a UPS and fail to configure your critical servers to shut down in time in case of a power failure.

>>4
They certainly don't change admin passwords around for no reason.

>>6
20:31:29 up 524 days, 10:36,  3 users,  load average: 1.58, 3.94, 2.61

>>6
Neither do Linux servers, unless they're configured by morons. Even if they did, though, that has nothing to do with stability.

>>6
THATS WHY THEY'RE NOT SUCURE AMIRITE?