Renewing root account

koosha · 09-14-2009, 02:46 PM

Hi all.
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Does anybody know how I can renew root account? I mean returning files and configurations belonging to root.
I've lost some config files and I don't want to reinstall my OS.
By the way, I use Debian Lenny.

MS3FGX · 09-14-2009, 02:52 PM

That would be an issue with recovering deleted files from the filesystem, not the root account. What filesystem are you using?

koosha · 09-15-2009, 04:41 AM

OK. I solved my problem myself.
Thanks.

mobinskariya · 09-15-2009, 05:18 AM

what was actually your problem??how did you solve it?? please answer so that we can get some new info.

koosha · 09-16-2009, 03:29 AM

Well, actually my problem was opening synaptic. It showed me an error:
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error could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory)
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I just changed the root home directory to '/root'(insted of /home/root) and that works properly now.
I think something corrupted configurations and changed root directory to /home/root mistakenly.