On 8/17/07, Rakesh Pandit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > yes, look at the last line in shadow file there must be a root entry. > Remove this 'root::::' line. It was just to remove your earlier > password. Go ahead! > >
whew! that worked allright. thanks so much rakesh. :-) incidentally, a rather curious thing happened, which i've not mentioned earlier. after i noticed the problem with ubuntu fiesty, i booted into breezy badger, and surprise! found the same problem there! so it was trusty ol' debian that helped me get root in a terminal and edit those two files in the filesystem of fiesty. will check badger again, but this is most strange. fyi, had not logged into badger since 2 or 3 months, and last time i logged in, everything worked normally. ? niyam _______________________________________________ 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/
