Re: Can't login to root

From: Jim (me_at_here.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:24:16 GMT

Wandering Destiny wrote:
> "Rich Teer" <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote in message
> news:Pine.SOL.4.58.0501291201210.855@zaphod...
>
>>On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Wandering Destiny wrote:
>>
>>
>>>to login even at console? If I do a reboot to single user mode, will I
>
> be
>
>>>able to login as root?
>>
>>No. Boot from CD and fix the problem.
>
>
> To all who reply, I managed to solve the problem by booting to single user
> mode and removing all the numbers my colleague added to the shadow file. My
> guess is that some service responsible for checking password expiration was
> not started in single user mode, which might explain why I was able to log
> in.
>
>
>>The bitch-slap whoever broke it in the first place!
>
>
> Can't do that, he is my team lead.
>
All the more reason to then !

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