boot from your first CD. Then type rescue at the prompt,
then type chroot /mnt once the system is up.. that will "simulate" your system, and give you access to all its files as root. Then you can do what you need to, and boot back normally. give it a shot, it has pulled me from the fire many a time. (I used my 8.1 disk to repair a 7.2 system the other day.) rgds Frank. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Guidry Sent: Monday, 31 December 2001 1:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Cannot login as or su - to root I'm pretty sure I'm having that problem with Bastille limiting filesizes which prevents me from su to root. but all of the fixes I've found require logging in as root, which I'm unable to do. For those unfamiliar with this problem, issuing the su command and entering the password yields the following message [jason@localhost jason]$ su Password: File size limit exceeded [jason@localhost jason]$ su - Password: File size limit exceeded [jason@localhost jason]$ some have speculated that using the - switch would change the result. apparently I've circumvented this. again, logging in as root fails, even after changing every varible I can think of. I've also nosed around for a local vunrability to gain root access, but since I've installed all of the patches and locked down everything except port 6000 (X11), I have nothing. Is there something I can do to fix this _without_ reinstalling? feel free to taunt and ridicule me in your reply.
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