No probs, glad to help, everything useful I have learned about linux was the result of my screwing something up., or reading about someone else doing it on these lists.. (newbie, expert and cooker.)
I only knew of that one because I had a kernel issue (caused by a motherboard swap) and had no way of booting to install another one. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Guidry Sent: Monday, 31 December 2001 2:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Cannot login as or su - to root Let's all raise a glass to franki! the situation was complicated slightly by my unbootable redHat6.2 partition being detected as root and then mounted under /mnt in rescue mode. I had to mount my mandrake root as / and then edit the /etc/security/limits.conf, editing out the offending file size limits. I'm still unable to log in as root, but I can su just fine. *whew* again, thanks so much! On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:46:23 +0800 "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > boot from your first CD. > > Then type rescue at the prompt, > > then type chroot /mnt > once the system is up.. > that will "simulate" your system, and give you access to all its files as > root. > > Then you can do what you need to, and boot back normally. <snip> Jason initiated by saying: > > I'm pretty sure I'm having that problem with Bastille limiting filesizes > which prevents me from su to root. but all of the fixes I've found require > logging in as root, which I'm unable to do. For those unfamiliar with this <snio>
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