u could just change boot prameters on grub and say single and boot tosingle user mode ? i think this would work aswell
Kashif ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Doris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 10:43 PM Subject: Re: HELP! Messed up bigtime! > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Gerry Doris wrote: > > > Well I really did it this time. I installed RH 8.0 as an upgrade and all > > worked great. I'm not totally sure what I did but the result is that I > > can't log in at all...no one not even root. I can boot right up to the > > login prompt without any errors though. > > > > I believe that I was last playing around in the menus and may have turned > > on ldap authentication. When I boot from the disk in rescue mode I can > > see that my /etc/passwd file is ok so all is not lost...I hope. > > > > How can I disable ldap authentication? > > Well, I hate to respond to my own message but I solved the problem. In > rescue mode I went into /etc/pam.d/system-auth and commented out the ldap > references. I was able to reboot as normal. > > Whewwwww!!! > > -- > Gerry > > "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
