locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)
hello...
i am still unable to log into my system, however, i am a little wiser than
before.
here is what i know:
-i am unable to log into my system. the system boots as usual, at the
login prompt i login (either normal user or root), give my password and
get a "login incorrect"
-i am able to log into single user mode (with my root password, so the
password must be working still) but i have no idea what i could do there
to get back into the system.
-i am able to boot from a rescue disk, but again, i am unable to
login.
-i assume the whole problem was caused by manually running fsck...it
started automatically on boot-up (the UT installation had caused some
errors i think) and then prompted me to run fsck manually, which i
did, answering yes to all the questions...after it was finished everything
seemed to work, except i couldn't log into the system...
-i think the problem has something to do with the root system being
miounted as read-only, but i am not sure of thet and i don't know how to
fix it, i tried to mount -o remount rw / from the single user mode and i
tried to start with giving lilo the additional rw parameter...neither of
those things changed anything though.
does anyone know how to get back into my system?
thanks a lot!
vester
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