PASSWD file hosed...
Eric F Crist
ecrist at tech-con-inc.com
Sat Oct 4 09:48:27 PDT 2003
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On Saturday 04 October 2003 11:27 am, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eric F Crist wrote:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm sure you're all getting sick of my being so vocal, but here goes
> > anyway.
> >
> > I was messing around as root in KDE and found the KUser application. I
> > tried adding a user (my girlfriend), and when done, nobody could log in.
> > I managed
>
> Mmm... GUIs.
>
> > to boot into single user, which logged me in a toor. I had to mount the
> > file systems r/w and finally got my username's password reset, after
> > finding a bunch of format errors in the /etc/master.passwd file. My
> > problem is that the was no root user listed, just toor and all the
> > others. How can I change
>
> If your machine has been up and running for a while, you will have
> backup files in /var/backup. Have a look at
> /var/backups/master.passwd.bak. If it looks contains everything you want,
> copy it to /etc/master.passwd. Otherwise just edit /etc/master.passwd and
> add the root entry. The default one without password looks like:
>
> root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
>
> Then run "pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd" and you're back in business.
>
> > this? Also, I've set the console as insecure, so it's going to ask me
> > for a root password.
>
> This is controlled in the file "/etc/ttys".
>
> $.02,
> /Mikko
Mikko,
Thanks for the reply. I found what you spoke of as you were probably sending
this reply. That's exactly what worked. However, the /etc/ttys file isn't
editable if you're not root, so I simply changed my uid to 0 from single user
to edit these things. (turns out i didn't set the insecure mode correctly,
anyways.
Thanks for the help!
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Eric F Crist
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
(952) 403-9000
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