after usermod can not su to root

2009-04-11 Thread zhang zhengquan
Dear debian users, I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and islanddancer is in sudoers file. today I changed it to zhengquan using sudo usermod -l zhengquan islanddancer I did nothing else. Now I can login using zhengquan but I was not able to su to root using the

Re: after usermod can not su to root

2009-04-11 Thread Harry Rickards
On 11 Apr 2009, at 18:58, zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: Dear debian users, I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and islanddancer is in sudoers file. today I changed it to zhengquan using sudo usermod -l zhengquan islanddancer I did nothing

Re: after usermod can not su to root

2009-04-11 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/11 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: On 11 Apr 2009, at 18:58, zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: Dear debian users, I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and islanddancer is in sudoers file. today I changed it to zhengquan using

[solved] Re: after usermod can not su to root

2009-04-11 Thread zhang zhengquan
pressing 'e' on the right GRUB entry, and adding 'single' to the end of the line. This boots up Debian as root. Thanks for the single user method, I did usermod -l islanddancer zhengquan in single user mode. and was able to su root again. Thank you so much, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,