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by **Gag** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 04:01:48

Hello all.

I modified my /etc/passwd earlier today to modify a persons account on
my linux machine. problem is I made a typo and here is his home
account:

/home/glenn./ where it should be /home/glenn/./

so when i log in as ANYONE, it says cant find directory and boots me
out. i tried logging in single user and when i give my linux password
it cant find the directory and boots me out.

any one willing to answer my plea for help? Thanks!

by **Bill Unr** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 04:30:12

]I modified my /etc/passwd earlier today to modify a persons account on
]my linux machine. problem is I made a typo and here is his home
]account:

]/home/glenn./ where it should be /home/glenn/./

]so when i log in as ANYONE, it says cant find directory and boots me
]out. i tried logging in single user and when i give my linux password
]it cant find the directory and boots me out.

I do not think that line is the problem, since /home/glenn./ could well be a valid
name. I would suspect you stuck in a blank line somewhere or did something else
badly. Can you log in as root?
(by the way, why in the world would you have a home directory of /home/glenn/./?
That ./ is unneccesary.)

by **Dave Uhrin** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:43:19

> (Gage) writes:

> ]I modified my /etc/passwd earlier today to modify a persons account on
> ]my linux machine. problem is I made a typo and here is his home
> ]account:

> ]/home/glenn./ where it should be /home/glenn/./

> ]so when i log in as ANYONE, it says cant find directory and boots me
> ]out. i tried logging in single user and when i give my linux password
> ]it cant find the directory and boots me out.

> I do not think that line is the problem, since /home/glenn./ could well be
> a valid name. I would suspect you stuck in a blank line somewhere or did
> something else badly. Can you log in as root?
> (by the way, why in the world would you have a home directory of
> /home/glenn/./? That ./ is unneccesary.)

Boot from an install CD - I know that Slackware's works and leaves you in a
shell. Mount your / partition on /mnt and edit the passwd file with vi.
Reboot.

by **news1.sympatico.c** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:54:19

1) You could give some command like shell=/bin/bash or something to get
going I think, on single user mode.
2) As far as I know ( and belive me, soz i spent the last 6 hours booting
and rebooting into single user mode ) , going single user does not ask for a
root password. it is asked when a normal startup fails and then the scripts
drop you into single mode.

3) The trailing ./ is needed to chroot people ftp-ing in, when one uses
proFTPd.

later.

joseph

Quote:> Hello all.

> I modified my /etc/passwd earlier today to modify a persons account on
> my linux machine. problem is I made a typo and here is his home
> account:

> /home/glenn./ where it should be /home/glenn/./

> so when i log in as ANYONE, it says cant find directory and boots me
> out. i tried logging in single user and when i give my linux password
> it cant find the directory and boots me out.

> any one willing to answer my plea for help? Thanks!

by **Jerry Krep** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:00:39

> Hello all.

> I modified my /etc/passwd earlier today to modify a persons account
> on my linux machine. problem is I made a typo and here is his home
> account:

> /home/glenn./ where it should be /home/glenn/./

> so when i log in as ANYONE, it says cant find directory and boots me
> out. i tried logging in single user and when i give my linux
> password it cant find the directory and boots me out.

> any one willing to answer my plea for help? Thanks!

Is there a reason you can log in as root and fix things?

by **Jerry Krep** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:07:15

> > Hello all.

> > I modified my /etc/passwd earlier today to modify a persons
> > account on my linux machine. problem is I made a typo and here is
> > his home account:

> > /home/glenn./ where it should be /home/glenn/./

> > so when i log in as ANYONE, it says cant find directory and boots
> > me out. i tried logging in single user and when i give my linux
> > password it cant find the directory and boots me out.

> > any one willing to answer my plea for help? Thanks!

Is there a reason you can not log in as root and fix things?

by **Gag** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:10:34

I made a rescue disk set just now and can mount my partition from it.
but even when I edit the passwd file it wont let me log in :/

so what i am doing is downloading servu ftp trial and will back up
everything onto this comp. thanks for the help anyways :)

> 1) You could give some command like shell=/bin/bash or something to get
> going I think, on single user mode.
> 2) As far as I know ( and belive me, soz i spent the last 6 hours booting
> and rebooting into single user mode ) , going single user does not ask for a
> root password. it is asked when a normal startup fails and then the scripts
> drop you into single mode.

> 3) The trailing ./ is needed to chroot people ftp-ing in, when one uses
> proFTPd.

> later.

> joseph

> > Hello all.

> > I modified my /etc/passwd earlier today to modify a persons account on
> > my linux machine. problem is I made a typo and here is his home
> > account:

> > /home/glenn./ where it should be /home/glenn/./

> > so when i log in as ANYONE, it says cant find directory and boots me
> > out. i tried logging in single user and when i give my linux password
> > it cant find the directory and boots me out.

> > any one willing to answer my plea for help? Thanks!

by **Dave Uhrin** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:05:31

> I made a rescue disk set just now and can mount my partition from it.
> but even when I edit the passwd file it wont let me log in :/

> so what i am doing is downloading servu ftp trial and will back up
> everything onto this comp. thanks for the help anyways :)

Edit /etc/shadow since that is where the password is actually kept.

by **Eric** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:44:30

Quote:> I made a rescue disk set just now and can mount my partition from it.
> but even when I edit the passwd file it wont let me log in :/

why not? Do you use /etc/shadow by any chance?
Explain what fails, or we cannot help you.

Quote:> so what i am doing is downloading servu ftp trial and will back up
> everything onto this comp. thanks for the help anyways :)

To back-up is never a bad idea.
Reinstalling usually is. It almost always is more work, especially if
you have tuned your system a lot.

Eric

by **Julian T. J. Midgl** » Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:21:31

>1) You could give some command like shell=/bin/bash or something to get
>going I think, on single user mode.
>2) As far as I know ( and belive me, soz i spent the last 6 hours booting
>and rebooting into single user mode ) , going single user does not ask for a
>root password. it is asked when a normal startup fails and then the scripts
>drop you into single mode.

Not quite true. Red Hat (and probably other distributions) are set up
not to require a password on entry to Single User mode. Debian (and
maybe others) certainly requires a password.

Julian

--
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