thanks rakesh and gora for your assistance. my comments below:
On 8/17/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean by root password "no longer > working". What did you try, and what happens. booted into fiesty normally using my username and password at login, and resumed my normal user tasks. however, the moment i opened a terminal and typed su - i got su: Authentication failure Sorry. > > a quick 'pwck' command results in > > pwck: cannot lock file /etc/passwd > [...] > > You need super-user privileges to run pwck. > Thus, > sudo pwck > uh ok. sorry did not document the errors i got on running this. nevertheless, i followed rakesh's suggestions, checked that i did have the shadow file and the passwd file, edited them as rakesh suggested, changed my password in a terminal, and everything worked again: in the terminal i could finally log in as root by issuing the su command followed by the regular password of the user. then as root, i just ran pwck, here's what i got: invalid shadow password file entry delete line 'root::::'? what should i do here? tia niyam > Regards, > Gora > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
