Re: Messed up root (SOLVED)

2012-11-30 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/27/2012 04:05 AM, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: Take a live CD with same architecture as your currently machine. D chroot is one solution ... i think you need to do that from knoppix live cd if the architecture is the same as your machine ; knoppix is i386 so If your machine is i386 or

Re: Messed up root

2012-11-27 Thread Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
Take a live CD with same architecture as your currently machine. D chroot is one solution ... i think you need to do that from knoppix live cd if the architecture is the same as your machine ; knoppix is i386 so If your machine is i386 or amd64 with mutiarch will work boot the live cd open a ter

Re: Messed up root

2012-11-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 07:37:39PM -0600, green wrote: > Gary Roach wrote at 2012-11-26 18:43 -0600: > > I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in > > my /etc/passwd file and then proceeded to log out of root. All of > > the files in /etc were changed to owner qroot and the

Re: Messed up root

2012-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:43:29AM +, Gary Roach wrote: > I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in my > /etc/passwd file and then proceeded to log out of root. All of the files > in /etc were changed to owner qroot and the root password doesn't work > any more.

Re: Messed up root

2012-11-26 Thread green
Gary Roach wrote at 2012-11-26 18:43 -0600: > I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in > my /etc/passwd file and then proceeded to log out of root. All of > the files in /etc were changed to owner qroot and the root password > doesn't work any more. I have a new Knoppix CD