Hi, I wanted to change the file ownership of a directory in root, but by mistake I gave the following command # chown -R <username>: / but Ctrl-C'd after a few seconds, after realising what I have done. After this I haven't been able to login as root. So I followed the procedure at http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/15629.html (viz. put the first CD of SuSE, rescue system, modify the passwd and shadow files). After I logged in again as a normal user and tried to login as root, it was still asking me for the passwd. Then I again went into rescue system, and then mounted /dev/sda1 where the home is and then removed the x from the root line. Also I modified the shadow file so that root looke like this root:::: After this I again rebooted the system and tried to login, now when I give su, it says the following. $ su su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted Now I am not able to login as root into my machine. I am very badly stuck up. What can I do now? Regards, Chaitanya. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs