thanks for your reply, actually there is no vital data or something, we want
to use this chance to learn as much as we can. the admin has allowed us to
try things as we can.
reinstalling is ofcourse the last resort, i remember reinstalling RH because
no sound would come (actually the speakers were muted) :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:32 PM
Subject: [LIH] Re: [LIG] Virus in Linux -- Revisited
> [lih and lip trimmed]
>
> Rahul Jindal rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > the same "You don't exist. Go away" stll exists and continues to
frustate.
> > :-(
> > any help "lower middle class sys admins"
>
> this is a pam hassle I think. the _best_ way (if you have a separate
/home
> partition of course) is to back up all vital conf files from /etc and
other
> places (you can at least read most of them as other users).
>
> then, reinstall linux (without formating /home).
>
> dumb solution I know ... but still, as you mention that the box has been
> rooted, it's the best possible one.
>
> --suresh
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
> EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
>
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