| sean finney on 18 May 2006 16:35:42 -0000 |
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hi folks, On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 04:30:13PM -0400, Greg Helledy wrote: > On install I chose not to use shadow passwords, keeping everything the > same as possible with what I'm familiar with (Debian). Following afaik, shadow passwords have been the default in debian for quite some time. > Then, logged in as root, I used the KDE user user manager to add another > user. I got an error, I think it said that /etc/shadow was not > available. So I went to console and tried to add the user with adduser > and it said that user already existed. it sounds like the kde app is hard coded (or at least defaults) to working with shadow passwords. > Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in this message. then you shouldn't be posting it to a publicaclly archived list :p On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:57:01AM -0400, Greg Helledy wrote: > But how do I get to kcontrol if I cannot login, under any user? It > couldn't be as simple as using a live cd to delete some file, could it? - boot the system, appending the option init=/bin/sh - when you get a root prompt, do mount -a - you may also need to do mount -o remount,rw / - fix your problem using cmdline tools - umount -a - mount -o remount,ro / - run sync a couple times to be sure - hit ctrl-d, and then hard-reboot your system when the kernel panics :) sean Attachment:
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