if we change "root" to something else, how do we change it back?

nehapawar · 05-14-2009, 05:54 AM

accidently in /etc/passwd, i changed root to oot...
how do i change it back?

syg00 · 05-14-2009, 05:58 AM

LiveCD

rosv · 05-14-2009, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nehapawar

accidently in /etc/passwd, i changed root to oot...
how do i change it back?

Perhaps you linux distro has a rescue option in the boot menu? If that's the case, boot into it and lauch an editor to edit your /etc/passwd file.

nehapawar · 05-14-2009, 06:19 AM

there is a recovery option in the boot menu...
how do we proceed?

nehapawar · 05-14-2009, 06:25 AM

in boot menu, we wrote "single" on the next line, using grub edit ...
after that the normal boot started with no change in the problem...

shpenat · 05-14-2009, 08:46 AM

If you have LiveCD or rescueCD from your distributions, use that one. There is also init= boot parameter hack, but I would use it only as last option.