[K12OSN] HELP..Emergency

[Sudev Barar]

On 9/28/05, John T. Leonard <johnny at msad41.us> wrote:
> Well I really did it this time...made changes in NIS and now can't log in as
> root to do anything...I can log in with my regular account but no joy on the
> 'root' login...anyone point me to a step by step fix for my predicament...I do
> have access to boot the machine by cd as it is in my office. This machine does
> my home exports to two other boxes also or I'd just dump it and finally do the
> upgrade that I've been wanting to do and import the users back from one of the
> other boxes, but I'd lose all the home dirs....  ...:-( John.........

Did you setup yourself as sudo? If you did then "sudo su -" may be of
sime use. [PONTIFICATION} That is why it is always recommended to sudo
rather than root login.

Alternately use the first disk and at installation prompt do "Linux
rescue" This will log you in as root and give you chance to edit the
conf file changes. Then reboot.

HTH
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux