Am 04.01.2011 15:53, schrieb Salvador Aguinaga: > Hello, > > I a small foot-print SL installation that runs very well, but today I > tried to make some changes at the > root level and I'm locked out of these privileges.
Did you really became root? Did you do a "su -" or how did you try to become root? > > for example: If I change to root, and try to change .bashrc it tells > me that I can't change the file. that the file is readonly. what does ls -l .basrc tell you? Does a "chmod u+w .bachrc" or chmod 700 .bashrc ( I assume its the .bashrc from /root -- elsewise you will might need to do another chmod) work? > if I try to add a new user, my system tells me that I can't do that? > useradd -c "Harp user" harpadmin > useradd: cannot create directory /home/harpadmin It appears from below, that the directory is already existing. From my memory useradd dislike that -- but I might be wrong. > I'm also trying to fix a terminal issue: the font is funky: > Äroot§vaultaire ßÜ# What does locales tell you? Did you recently change anything on system or the way you login to (e.g. are you using putty or ssh from a different system which might having a different charset set? this looks a bit like UTF-8 vs. something else > > Lastly, I tried changing the password for user: harpuser, but the > system tells me that I have no such user, here is my /home/ folder: > > Äroot§vaultaire homeÜ# ls > harpuser sluser Does the user have an entry inside /etc/passwd? Cheers, Frank
