Re: more important problem

["Alan DeJong" <annette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am at the command line now.. when i logged out of X it brought me straight
back there.  which i thought was really odd... but i went with it.  i tried
"su -" and it said user root does not exist.   so i am guessin' my good
friend root has left the building for a while...  and i cant shutdown my
computer w/o the password.. so i am kinda stuck here for a while.. i can run
X and all that good stuff.. (cant really do much though)  any other
suggestions??  there isnt like a "root recovery program" out there is
there??  nah, that's prolly be tooooo easy.. :-)

-alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wesley Leonard" <marshall@pacdemon.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: more important problem


> Yeow!
>
> Well, to let regular users mount the cdrom all you need to do is add the
"user"
> option to the cdrom line in /etc/fstab
>
> As for your root problem...  ???
>
> Trying typing "su -" instead of su root.  Also, did you log out completely
(hit
> CTRL-ALT-F1 to get toa  command line login)?  Trying logging in from the
command
> line.
>
> Alan DeJong wrote:
>
> > ,okay heres the deal, i was trying to change the permissions on my user
> > account "alan" while i was in root, so i could mount my cdrom drive.
 i have
> > no idea what i'm doing, i am reading the book as i go)  and when i
logged out
> > of root, and into alan, i found i sill coudlnt do it.  then i tried to
log
> > into root, with no success...  so i tried "su root" (thats what it said
in the
> > book) and it said "user root does not exist"  and i was going to add
another
> > user, maybe add root back in, and i cant do it unless i am root...
please
> > help!! -alan
>
> --
>
> Wesley Leonard
> marshall@pacdemon.org
>
> http://www.pacdemon.org
> "...I want Linux to be on the cutting edge, and even a bit past the edge,
> because what's past the edge today is what's on your desktop tomorrow."
>  --Linus Torvalds
>
>
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