From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HnTcN-0007ls-00 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 02:01:11 -0400 Received: (qmail 2332 invoked by uid 1000); 13 May 2007 22:59:43 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:59:43 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Problem loggin asor ot Message-ID: <20070514055943.GB2225@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070514005508.9270.60096@biff.serotek.com> <20070514055209.GA2225@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070514055209.GA2225@localhost.localdomain> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 06:01:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A couple more comments, sorry about the double post. I did want to point out that even though your friend hasn't changed her password, it is possible that /etc/shadow and/or /etc/passwd got corrupted. Also, in the correctly spelled second thread, someone suggested using single user mode. However, as far as I know, you still have to login even then, so that might not work. Greg On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:52:09PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Fortunately, I haven't had to do anything like this, so what I'm > about to describe hasn't been tested by me. However, your friend > should be able to boot from a rescue cd of some sort, make sure that > she's root on that cd, and mount her / partition somewhere. Then, > chroot into that mount, and issue passwd. Like I said, I haven't done > this myself, but it should work. > > Greg > > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGR/rP7s9z/XlyUyARAqLDAKClv43NO7hmt9sOQIfPtk0updSIbQCfeLPa lg/bb/ON52nBpodyNFvMVaY= =tmsk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----