Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:36:38AM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
>
> I- m starting to get desperate! I found lots of instructions on the
> web about how to solve this, but none of them works. Example, I
> founmd this
>
> In grub press e ton edit options
> add to init options
>
> init=/bin/sh
> RET
> press b to boot
> Then mount -o remount,rw /
> passwd kjetil
> (repeating new password twice)
> exec init
Instead of changing your password like that, what I'd do is after "mount
-o remount,rw" I'd "vim /etc/passwd" and take out the x for root:
i.e before:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
after
root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
save it, (make sure it saved ok.) then reboot.
You should now be able to login as root without needing a password
and investigate from there.
Does that work?
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