Change userID now can't logon to system
 

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this board and so I'd just like to say HI.

I had to change a userID on my redhat linux system and now for some reason I can no longer logon to my system. To change the userID, I had to go into the /etc/passwd file. After that I did that the ownership on my files changed. So I changed them to what they're supposed to be including all of hidden files. What do I do now?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

Just make the same change in /etc/shadow



Cheers,
Tink

In /etc/shadow the numbers aren't the same.

:12993:0:99999:7:::

as my /etc/passwd

:x:12570:

THanks again.

OOops ... I wasn't reading properly. I thought you meant
the users ID not the UID. If the uid was modified and owner
ships of
chown -R <newUID> /home/name
was done there's no reason that it shouldn't let you
log-in unless there's now a syntax error in the line
that holds your user. Care to paste it here, with both
its neighbours?


Cheers,
Tink

I would love to paste it but unfortunately I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about.

Ok ... well, just check whether the number of
: in the line with your user is the same as for all
others, and that the last entry is the users shell.


Cheers,
Tink