On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Scott Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! I have BBB that I've somehow hosed the permissions on my home > directory, so I can no longer log into it - when trying to ssh I'm getting a > permission denied. This is an element14 unit with whatever Debian version > that came with it installed. I (unwisely) never created another user > account on the box. Is my only recourse at this point reflashing my BBB to > a new image, or is there a back door of some sort that I can use to SSH into > it, or at least mount the eMMC to see what's there and try and fix without > needing to reflash?
There are a couple advanced ways, boot into single user mode, hack up permissions on the mounted sd card... Just reflash, it's painless and gets you back to the default state. ;) Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
