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frippz
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 Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 3:16 pm Post subject: This should make me the Moron of the Year... =( |
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My brand new Gentoo installation just had a little "accident".
Seems that when I was working in webmin adding a user (for Samba use, no home directory etc.) things took a terrible turn. I found that I wasn't satisfied with the new user so I deleted the account through webmin.
A while later I returned to my SSH session that was logged on at the same time and ran a PS AUX to check what services that was running. Imagine the face I made when all the system services normally run by root was run by #0. This can't be good, I thought and tried to log into Webmin again. This time webmin claimed that user root could not be found. So I tried to re-login through SSH and got a similar response; user root not found!! 
How the heck could that happen!?!? 
My normal user account is still there though and I can still log in with it. |
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rizzo
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| So you can't ssh as your normal user and then 'su -' to root? |
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frippz
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Nope, I get the same response then aswell; Unknown id: root |
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fmalabre
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe they did the same with the forum database  |
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Did you delete the 'root' user by any chance?
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Does booting in single-user mode help? Add "single" to the kernel parameters at boot time in your bootloader.
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fmalabre
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you boot from the Gentoo ISO CD, and mount your partition to be able to change the /etc/passwd ? |
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frippz
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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During the forum down time some interesting stuff happened... 
I was still able to log on to Webmin and with it recreate the root account.
It seems like everything is working the way it should.
The only thing is that the alias ls --color seems to be gone. Wasn't there a file where you could set this alias on a global basis?
I just can't remember wich one it is...
Anyways, thanx for all help! 
Edit: Never mind! I found the file! (/etc/profile.env) |
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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Try a search for 'alias' and 'color'.
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rommel
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| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:49 am Post subject: |
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but i was promised "moron of the year"...  |
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frippz
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| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Hmmm, well... since I was able to fix the mistake on my own, you may still be eligible for the title! |
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steblublu
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| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| *Levi* wrote: | | Hmmm, well... since I was able to fix the mistake on my own, you may still be eligible for the title! |
we'll let both of you be morons. enjoy.
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ozric100
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| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| You picked Gentoo... So you can't be to much of a moron! |
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rommel
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| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| OH COOOL!!!...uh i think...lol |
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