Okay, silly me. I said look at this /etc/passwd file! All these users I don't use (starts deleting them [bin, daemon, adm, lp]). Then to prove to my friend that i could still login I logged out. And I couldn't log back in.

Live and learn. Now I'm on my first harddrive (Windows) and the second is my linux (Slack9). Think I can use Cygwin to restore it? If so, there must be special options to supply to these users. Can someone help me out?

(By the way, I'm sure everyones done this at least once. Or maybe, it's just me and my delete first and ask questions later ideals.)

Thanks guys. (Second day with Linux, already broken, geez.)

EDIT: Nevermind, I fixed it. Go me

You should probably be able to boot up into a single user mode, maybe specifying a shell to boot to like /bin/bash to go in and edit/fix your hilarious mistake..

Not sure how to boot into single mode, search this site, its done all the time cause I'm not sure what bootloader your using so it can differ.

I think I have to pass init=/bin/bash.

So I can just adduser bin (and the rest) and leave the defaults?

Heh.

Heh, nope.

I'm using Syslinux (because of my two harddrives). Must find single user diddly for that whatchamacallsit.