On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 23:29 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 23:10:32 -0700 > drew wymore <drew.wym...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Russell Senior > ><russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > >>>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> writes: > >> > >> John> However, after the install a number of programs will not > >> John> launch. Frequently I get the error message "Authentication > >> John> denied: User doesn't exist 521." snip > > > >Cat /etc/shadow and it should give you the UID of your user and who > >the mysterious account assigned > > Cat /etc/shadow does not work. I can't copy and paste the error message > from the terminal window because the copy button is grayed out. > Basically, it said "permission denied" so I repeated it as sudo,
If Bill's suggestion does not work, this may be time to boot into runlevel 1. Haven't tried F13, so I don't know if the option readily exists from the GRUB menu -- but if it does (this works with older versions of Fedora -- and RHEL 6 beta) 1) Boot the system 2) When a message like "press a key within 5 seconds" appears, do so 3) Press a (or p to enter a password, then press a) 4) In the line that appears, type a space followed by 1, press Enter 5) Press b to boot into runlevel 1 6) A command line should appear -- you'll be the root user. You should then be able to run [cat /etc/shadow] Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
