First let me start by saying thatI am fairly new to the Linux world, This is my first installation of 7.0. I have been working on establishing SAMBA clients and working with smbpasswd - Everything appeared to be going fine until I processed the third user into the smbpasswd database. I received an error writing out the converted password. Since my last reboot - I can not log into the system using any id & password (root included). Anyway, to make a long story short, I have a couple questions.

1) What do I do now to get back on the system?

2) What is the process that I need to follow to reset all passwd and smbpasswd files back to a point when they are all in sink again?

Thanks for any advice in advance.

.CLOY.

Well first you want to at least get into the system, by typing Linux 1 at the boot prompt. This will put you in single user mode where you won't be prompted for a login or password and then go check or edit files if possible.

tk,
That is great news, I did not know that was the way that initlevel l worked.

Any advice on restoring a corupt passwd file?


Thanks,

.CLOY.

Not unless you backed them up elsewhere. If not, looks like a lot of typing maybe.

I did not have a back-up copy - my bad.

I only have a handful of users so that is no big deal, what I am worried about is all the standard users and groups (i.e. root, lp, etc...) where can I start? Is there a generic copy nested in an RPM that I can grab?

.CLOY.