Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:24:45AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 15:49, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > > > Do you have /etc/securetty ? > > > > It should contain your console devices (without /dev) > > mine reads : > > > > <> > > console > > > > # Standard consoles > > tty1

Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-13 Thread John Foster
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 15:49, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > Do you have /etc/securetty ? > > It should contain your console devices (without /dev) > mine reads : > > <> > console > > # Standard consoles > tty1 > tty2 > tty3 > > > # Same as above, but these only occur with devfs devices > vc/1 >

Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:07:25AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 17:29, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > Seriously, if you have another means of booting, mounting, and editing > > the password file (which you demonstrated that you do) just do it again > > and add the following line

Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-10 Thread John Foster
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 17:29, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Seriously, if you have another means of booting, mounting, and editing > the password file (which you demonstrated that you do) just do it again > and add the following line back in: > > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > If you don't know th

Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021009 15:26]: > First off the search facility does not seem to be working at Debian.org > just now, so I could not check there...I did check the mail archives but > they also seem to be handicapped. Oh Well! > Here's the problem... > I wanted to try some new ins

I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-09 Thread John Foster
First off the search facility does not seem to be working at Debian.org just now, so I could not check there...I did check the mail archives but they also seem to be handicapped. Oh Well! Here's the problem... I wanted to try some new installation techniques doing them completely off the internet.