[K12OSN] HELP..Emergency

[John T. Leonard]

Quoting Sudev Barar <sbarar at gmail.com>:

> 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
> --
> Sudev Barar
> Learning Linux
> 
Hi...Ok..I ran authconfig from rescue mode and I'm back in.....my home dirs
aren't exporting now but I can probably get to the bottom of that....thank you
very much for the help Sudev...John