I was installing AFS for Linux when I came to a point where I had to
reboot.
Suddenly I can't log into my box anymore...both my root and user logins
give me "Invalid login". So I followed the instructions below from the
archive, but now when I try to log in as root it doesn't even let me
enter a password...I just get the same message and it refreshes to a
clean login prompt.
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Try booting with "init=/bin/sh". Unless you've activated some LILO
security features, that will give you a root shell.
do:
mount -o rw,remount /
vi [or any other editor] /etc/shadow
Replace the line reading something like
root:$1$p8fRUBO9$gbNM1tqtVPTWOYhkGMEC41:10818:0:99999:7:-1:-1:134542400
with
root::10818:0:99999:7:-1:-1:134542400
Save the file, exit the editor, type "sync", and press Ctrl-D. Now you
should be able to boot into runlevels 3 and 5; the root password is
empty. Don't forget to change it back to something more difficult to
guess as soon as possible.
LLaP
bero
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Any ideas how I can get back into my system? Is there something with PAM
I need to update?
Mandrake 6.0, 2.2.9-27
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Steve Fox
http://pcxtreme.org
