Le Dimanche, 26 Septembre 2004 17.38, James Knott a écrit :

Willy Reinhardt wrote:

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Hi,

I am using Suse 9.0 and I got a strange problem. I am not able to log as root anymore :..( root account is disabled Yesterday everything was working fine and now I can't use root account I tried without success - Log using su - Log in console mode - Log using ssh from another computer - Use rescue boot from CD

When I am using rescue system from boot CD I don't know what can I do because I can't start yast or acceed to configuration files on my HD.

Is somebody got a similar problem ? What can I try to reactivate the root account ? How a root account can be desactivated in normal use of your computer ????

Thanks

Are you getting a paswword error? If so, you may be able to boot from the install CD and remove the root password and then when you reboot, log in as root, without password and recreate one.

No I get a message "Login for root is disabled" if I try to open a Xsession. With text mode I get message "Login: no shell No such file or directory" note the directory /root still exist. -- ----------------------------------- Willy Reinhardt

Le Dimanche, 26 Septembre 2004 18.26, James Knott a écrit :

Willy Reinhardt wrote:

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No I get a message "Login for root is disabled" if I try to open a Xsession. With text mode I get message "Login: no shell No such file or directory" note the directory /root still exist.

Is root still listed in /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow?

I can't read shadow but for passwd I have root:x:0:0:root:/root:exit I don't no why exit replace /bin/bash because I don't edit that file or user access recently ?? I should try to edit passwd file using rescue cd I think. -- ----------------------------------- Willy Reinhardt

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Willy Reinhardt wrote:-

I can't read shadow but for passwd I have

root:x:0:0:root:/root:exit

I don't no why exit replace /bin/bash because I don't edit that file or user access recently ??

I should try to edit passwd file using rescue cd I think.

No need to use the rescue CD. Log in as a normal user and, from a console, use: su - -s /bin/bash This should allow you to log in as root and override any shell that /etc/passwd has listed. Once in, edit /etc/passwd to change the shell to a working one. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 63 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD 1800 1Gb WinXP/SuSE 9.1 | AMD 2400 160Mb SuSE 8.1 | AMD 2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 AMD 1300 512Mb SuSE 9.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62 RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11

The Sunday 2004-09-26 at 18:51 +0200, Willy Reinhardt wrote:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:exit

I don't no why exit replace /bin/bash because I don't edit that file or user access recently ??

I read you have corrected that, but I would worry very much not knowing how it was changed. Worst, by whom. I would start getting paranoid and look for unauthorized entry. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson