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. -- 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
