On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Once logged in I opened /etc/shadow as root (using nano) and added * in > front of the JJJ line. Then I rebooted. Sadly, I should not have done > that, because now I can't log in, even at the command line. Whatever I > enter for the password (including leaving it blank) results in "incorrect > password" error. I get the same error message if I try to log in as root.
John, The '*' is not equivalent to '#'; the latter is the comment character. And, you effectively removed yourself as a user on the system. What Alan suggested was to remove the password portion in /etc/shadow (which has the encrypted passwords), not your entire entry. Can you log in as root from a console? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
