29 Dec
2003
29 Dec
'03
23:33
On Monday 29 December 2003 04:49 pm, Richard Atcheson wrote:
All of a sudden whenever I try to do anything as root, I get the message 'user root doesnt exist.'
The last thing I did was to add users to my users group. Did not mess with root. Now I cant even start yast! Any ideas on how to recover from this? TIA Richard
I looked at /etc/passwd and it had been changed by yast to contain only 4 entries all being of group users. Fortunately the original had been saved so I renamed the backup to passwd and now I seem to have a root user but no password to let me in. My old pw doesnt work now. The question now is How do I get into my machine to change/add the corect password for root?