Re: Can't login to root

From: Ian (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:30:16 +1300

Wandering Destiny wrote:
> A colleague of mine manually edited the shadow file to enable password
> expiration. Some how, he messed up the shadow file and now we can't log in
> or su to root, not even from console. I know he didn't changed the password
> field of the file, so could he have changed that caused root not being able
> to login even at console? If I do a reboot to single user mode, will I be
> able to login as root?
>
No, you will have to boot form CD. I'd then restore the files form
backup and try again - with care!

Ian

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