Re: [SLE] Root passwd gone(an addition)

From: Chaitanya Krishna A (icymist82_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/30/05

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To: Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@japantest.homelinux.com>

    Hi,

    I forgot to mention something in the last mail. After giving
    # chown -R <username>: /
    cd'd to / and then gave an ls, I saw that only the permissions of /dev and /bin
    were changed to the <username>. Therefore,

    I again gave
    # chown -R root:/
    and then realised that it would change the permissions of /home, etc and then I
    again Ctrl-C'd.

    My reply to Sunny's suggestions can be seen below.

    > > I wanted to change the file ownership of a directory in root, but by
    > mistake I
    > > gave the following command
    > > # chown -R <username>: /
    > > but Ctrl-C'd after a few seconds, after realising what I have done.
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > That was thorough, I'll give you that. (^-^)
    >
    > > Now I am not able to login as root into my machine. I am very badly stuck
    > up.
    > > What can I do now?
    >
    > Have you tried to change ownership of some important files back? For example
    > in
    > /etc the files passwd, group, shadow.
    > In fact, you could just boot from rescue disc, make a backup of /etc, and
    > then
    > as a first step do "chown root /etc /sbin"
    Both /etc and /sbin are root:root set to (user:group)

    > If you can then boot into the system, have a look at /etc/permissions... It
    > is a
    > set of files that yast keeps track of to restore proper ownership if it is
    > changed. Yast -> Security and Users -> Security Settings.
    I can boot into the system, but I can't do anything using Yast coz it needs the
    root passwd.

    Regards,
    Chaitanya.

                    
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