I have no name!

josephswagner · 08-07-2003, 01:25 PM

Any help with this will be much appreciated.
When I login to a linux box of mine as any user other than root my prompt looks like this.

Code:

servername! I have no name!:~$

also, I am not allowed to do anything! I can't even browse the directory tree.

Please help!!

gnu noob · 08-07-2003, 02:07 PM

have you logged in as root to see if your accounts still exist? or as root, try to create a new account and try to use that one to log in.

josephswagner · 08-07-2003, 02:08 PM

I already tried that. doesn't work.

MasterC · 08-07-2003, 02:10 PM

Which distro is this on? LFS?

Cool

gnu noob · 08-07-2003, 02:11 PM

hmmm, which flavor is this happening on?

nakkaya · 08-07-2003, 04:26 PM

put you dist cd in the drive and boot from than try writing rescure to the prombt and if it takes you to a rescue mode try adding user from there or resetting passwords