OMG, is this ever a heinous bug. I was trying to reconcile users between two boxes, and so changing their UID's, including mine.
The stupid thing drops into a shell and tells me to edit a file which I can now not get to, and since Ubuntu does the root=no password thing, I am now locked out of fixing things. I'm going to have to take a server down and boot it with a rescue disk so I can change the file and regain access. This is on a 9.04 box. hack...@gerbils:/exports/homes$ sudo vipw You have modified /etc/passwd. You may need to modify /etc/shadow for consistency. Please use the command `vipw -s' to do so. hack...@gerbils:/exports/homes$ sudo vipw -s sudo: uid 1000 does not exist in the passwd file! hack...@gerbils:/exports/homes$ su hack...@gerbils:/exports/homes$ su - hack...@gerbils:/exports/homes$ ssh r...@gerbils You don't exist, go away! vipw didn't used to be this dumb, what changed? -- vipw doesn't ask to change shadow file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338423 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
