On Lu, 06 oct 14, 10:23:28, John Aten wrote:
> I booted up the broken system and attempted to get the device name
> looking at /etc/fstab, mount and fdisk -l. I got a device name
> (/dev/sda1) and a UUID.
You should use 'fdisk -l' or 'blkid' only after you boot with your
rescue disk/usb/whatev
On Oct 5, 2014, at 8:10 PM, William Unruh wrote:
> Log on as oot. the system does not care what the name is. All it cares
> about is the uid (0) You could call uid 0 donduck and your system would
> not care, as long as you used that name to log on.
> Of course this does not mean you should leave
John Aten writes:
> sudo: unknown user: root sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
Ok, then you have to boot the CD and mount the disk. Then just edit the
file with a text editor.
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On Oct 5, 2014, at 6:42 PM, John Hasler wrote:
>> This brings up the /etc/passwd of the live system, not the broken
>> /etc/passwd on the hard drive.
>
> Boot up the broken system. Log into your own account.
>
> sudo vipw
>
> Fix the root acount entry.
I tried that, and it returns:
sudo:
John Aten writes:
> How do I get access to the installed /etc/passwd ?
sudo vipw
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On Oct 5, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote:
> 2014-10-05 19:42 keltezéssel, John Aten írta:
>
>> I just built bash 4.3.29 from source. I wanted to change my root and one
>> user account to use it as the default shell. I ran sudo chsh and entered
>> /usr/local/bin/bash, and everything was
2014-10-05 19:42 keltezéssel, John Aten írta:
> I just built bash 4.3.29 from source. I wanted to change my root and one user
> account to use it as the default shell. I ran sudo chsh and entered
> /usr/local/bin/bash, and everything was fine. I could log in and out, run
> commands, and the $SH
Hi all,
I just built bash 4.3.29 from source. I wanted to change my root and one user
account to use it as the default shell. I ran sudo chsh and entered
/usr/local/bin/bash, and everything was fine. I could log in and out, run
commands, and the $SHELL and $BASH_VERSION environment variables co
Hi all,
I just built bash 4.3.29 from source. I wanted to change my root and one user
account to use it as the default shell. I ran sudo chsh and entered
/usr/local/bin/bash, and everything was fine. I could log in and out, run
commands, and the $SHELL and $BASH_VERSION environment variables co
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