On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:17:02PM +1000, Billy Kwong wrote: > Muz, > > Have you tried booting Ubuntu up in single user mode and see if you can > login? > > Worst case scenario, boot the PC using any Linux live CD, then chroot to the > installed root partition on your HDD, and give the remaining user sudo > priviledges. or if your using grub edit the boot line and append init=/bin/bash and then do your stuff. You will probably need to mount -o remount,rw / to get write access to the partition
> > Regards, > Bill > > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:03:55PM +1000, Murray Waldron wrote: > > G'day all, > > > > Late last night, with a foggy head, I deleted two user accounts from my > > machine, one having full admin privilages, using the GUI tools. Know, > > sudo doesn't accept my password in my only remaining account, so I'm > > very lost as to how to fix this. > > > > Any assistance and advice on fixing this will be greatly appreciated? > > > > Thanks, > > Muz. > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GCS d+ s: a- C++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W++ N* o-- K-- w--- > O-- M V- PS PE Y PGP++ t 5 X++ R tv b++ DI+ D++ > G e++ h! r y? > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
