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On Monday 12 January 2009 11:04, Simon Waters wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > I got my viglen updated to Xubuntu 8.04 , swap added etc. > > I just used the 'users and groups' gui to try and add some proper users, > > change the passwords etc and got no users listed? > > I closed the thing and then tried to do some other stuff - lots of > > complaints about no root user. Thought I'd close my X session and now > > cant do anything. No users seem to exist and I can log on as anything! > > err wot now.. > > Does it allow booting from a LiveCD, and see what happened to the > /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. There is no CD on this and I have no USB CD! > > There is a "pwck" (and grpck) in /usr/sbin for just this sort of problem. cant login to get at them! > > My guess is the "root" (uid 0) entry got changed or deleted. > > Does sound like the utility you used was buggy, or not appropriate in > some way. Standard gui method as far as I know! > Wonder if it had the good sense to back up the passwd and > shadow files? I was configuring usernames as part of setting it up to so I could do backups etc! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html