[ale] stupid sys admin tricks

[Jerry Yu]

can't login from command line, from X windows ? any error on the
screen when it fails ?
login as regular user (phoil, regularJoe) or super (root)?

what about boot to single user mode first ? make sure /usr has 755 permission.
not familiar with Mandriva. If it has SELinux enabled, check security
context of /usr and dirs under.


On 6/26/06, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Mon Jun 26, 2006 05:52PM, Robert Karaffa wrote:
> > hi folks,
> >       i managed to really fmrkl my Mandriva server.  Here's my confession:
> >
> > -i created a new user via Webmin named phoil
> > -i had Webmin create phoil's home directory in /usr
> > -bad move, because now /usr is phoil's home directory
> > -i realized too late that i was fmrkld
> > -i tried to move phoil's home directory to /usr/phoil (via Webmin)
> > -suddenly, Webmin doesn't work anymore
> > -in fact, nothing works anymore
> > -this is great, isn't it?  a public self-inflicted flogging (somebody
> > get me some salt water!).
> >
> > okay, i'm trying to rescue my server, so I rebooted from a Mandriva
> > disk in "rescue" mode.
> >
> > I mounted all my old partitions under /mnt.
> >
> > I was able to copy all of the files from /usr/phoil back to /usr, and
> > I tried to chown all of them to root (chown -R root *), but I still
> > cannot login after reboot.  I'm missing something here and I haven't
> > figured it out yet.
> >
> > Would anybody be willing to hold my arm up so that I can flog myself
> > some more?
> >
> > Would anybody be willing to toss me a clue?
> >
> > -Bob K.
> >
> >
>
> What does /var/log/messages (or 'dmesg') say?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Trey
> ----
>
> Nihilism should commence with oneself.
>
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