passwords broken
Please, please help me.
Sometime, overnight my work computer seized up. When I got to work, I
had a blank screen and nothing would change it. So I stopped and
started the computer, and when it came back up I got the usual fsck for
an uncleanly umounted file system. I was required to give the root
password and run e2fsck manually, which I did. I usually just respond
"yes" to all the fixes. That's probably not advisable, but I'm the only
user, so I'm only hurting myself. Anyway, among the corrupted files
were apparently /etc/fstab, /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow, becuase when I
tried to reboot my computer, those files were missing. I was able to
rebuild fstab by booting up with a rescue floppy. The only thing I
could think to do to replace /etc/password and /etc/shadow was to copy
the files from my home computer which has the exact same users and the
exact same directory structure, but that did not work. When I boot up,
everything appears fine but I can't login. No matter what I try, it
says the login is incorrect. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks.
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Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
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