I wish I never had this ... please help me fight it!
Marian POPESCU
softexpert at libertysurf.fr
Thu May 11 08:46:22 UTC 2006
jludwig wrote:
> When you use your rescue disk, cat your passwd file and see if the user
> root exists.
> If not you may need to enter the user root manually.
> The system will not boot without a root user (and probably password) since
> most programs and files (all system files??) are owned by root.
Thanks for replying!
It was nsswitch.conf !
I had previously (about 3 weeks ago) modified nsswitch.conf to something
like this
passwd: compat winbind
shadow: compat
group: compat winbind
and I could login all the time without problems.
Somehow, after updating the system to latest kernel an dbus versions, it
started to play the foul ...
As soon as I put
passwd: files compat winbind
shadow: files compat
group: files compat winbind
and restarted the system, I could login as root or whatever I wanted.
It's weird, though ...
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