-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Darac Marjal wrote:
> Just to clarify things, you did change the password for the root on your > installation, didn't you? That is, you didn't just change the password > for root on the live CD, which was then lost as you rebooted? After examination of the directory structure created by Finnix, I discovered that you are right. Finnix creates two new directories, FINNIX and UNIONFS. Each one of these has a complete linux standard directory structure. Running command "ls -l /" lists the major directories, bin, boot, etc, home, lib, opt, root, run, sbin, srv, usr and var as links to the same sub-directories in directory UNIONFS. So I indeed set the root password for finnix, not Squeeze, with the result that I am still denied access to root in Squeeze. How that password got changed from the one I set last May when I started the long, difficult process of upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze I know not. (Why are Debian upgrades always so difficult and time consuming?) That password had been working for a time, but without any conscious intervention on my part it suddenly stopped working. While I had finnix loaded I tried to access the Squeeze /etc directory by removing the relevant link, so I could update the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow files rather than /UNIONFS/etc/passwd or /UNIONFS/etc/shadow. but without success. In fact that attempt caused finnix to hang the computer. Not only that, but also I after closing the computer and rebooting I was unable to install *any* operating system, whether finnix from the CD or Squeeze from the hard drive. I am now consequently forced to do completely new Squeeze installation. Regards, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAk5w0LIACgkQlNlJzOkJmTcTGACffGH5lcEIvP+vtURtBQLNzxiy /xMAn21UEdJDa8S5PXesQT3Hh/Kb7wZP =ZGqO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e70d0b3.1080...@heard.name