From: Chris Norman <cnorman@rnibncw.ac.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Problem logging in as root
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:33:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179138811.6563.3.camel@sparky> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070514020034.9270.43637@biff.serotek.com>
Can you go on a debbian live cd, chroot to the partition where her /
partition would normally be and install / compile sudo? Or do an auto
install or something?
HTH, and I have never had to do this, so sorry if I'm wrong L.
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 22:00 -0400, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I apologize for the garbled message sent previously. I was typing on
> freedombox with key echo on and had awl sorts of transpositions and
> missing spaces. Tried to do another email and the same thing was
> happening. I have to use freedobox mail because somehow emails to me
> from this list and some others are bouncing on my Charter account.
> Turned off key echo and now everything seems to be fine; don't know if
> it was something in freedobox Key echo, my keyboard, or what.
> Admittedly I didn't spellcheck before sending but my spelling isn't THAT bad!!!
>
> I have a friend who suddenly can not log in as root. She can log in
> with her normal user password or with mine; I have an account on her
> box and maintain it for her. But logging in as root fails both from the
> console login prompt and with su; she doesn't appear to have sudo. I've
> checked that she's using the correct password and that caps lock is
> off. Does anybody either have an idea what might have caused this or
> how we can solve the problem so she can log in as root? She can't fetch
> packages because she's using root to start her ppp connection. She
> hasn't upgraded for a while so it's not some new package she added
> causing the problem.
> Thanks for any help and sorry again about the last post; I checked it
> this time but now i'm paranoid!!!
>
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