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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can not login with root user Post 302415176 by futi on Thursday 22nd of April 2010 01:51:50 AM
Old 04-22-2010
Can not login with root user

Hi folks.

our developer had a root user and he changed some settings about root user. We have not known what he changed.

There is an oracle user, we can login to oracle, no problem. But when we try to login to root user we are getting this error :

Code:
[oracle@localhost ~]$ su root
Password: 
bash: root/.bashrc: Permission denied

Another output may be useful for you :

Code:
bash-3.2$ su - root
Password: 
su: warning: cannot change directory to root: Permission denied
-bash: root/.bash_profile: Permission denied
-bash-3.2$ 
-bash-3.2$ pwd
/home/oracle
-bash-3.2$ echo $HOME
root
-bash-3.2$ cd $HOME
-bash: cd: root: Permission denied
-bash-3.2$

after unsuccessful login:

Code:
-bash-3.2$ who am i
oracle   pts/5        2010-04-22 08:50 (10.10.6.71)
-bash-3.2$ whoami
root
-bash-3.2$

how can i restore the root user?

Thanks.
 

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