[K12OSN] HELP..Emergency

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Johnny: anything i can do to help..i can still use nx to get in..though i
long agoforgot all pws...chuck

> 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
> 
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