Hi - do you think this process would work for recovering /etc/passwd when, despite typing it three times (change, confirm, into notes), my new debian user password isn't accepted.
Single user mode on BBB seems non-trivial and I'd rather not start again with my config. Thanks, Dan On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 15:25:51 UTC, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 03:56:36 -0700 (PDT), > sayalik...@gmail.com <javascript:> declaimed the > following: > > >Hi, > > I did a some change in sudoers file, so i can not be root , i can not > use > >sudo or su > >debian@beaglebone: sudo su - > >sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 23 <<< > >sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 23 > >sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting > >sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin > > > >How can I correct this file ? > > If that is in the eMMC, boot with a fresh SD card image. > If that is in an SD card, remove it and boot from the eMMC image > > THEN > Mount the other device (insert the SD card if booting from eMMC) > somewhere into the file system... > Copy the good /etc/sudoers file from the booted system to > /whereever/mounted/etc/sudoers... > > Dismount, reboot > > And, as mentioned elsewhere, only use "visudo" to edit the sudoers > file; do not edit it by hand using any other command. > > > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlf...@ix.netcom.com <javascript:> > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/c11f2484-d22a-4e67-89b9-a27b306eeb6c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
