So the password is NOW unlocked and has been since I
and
I presume that I can login without password because mine is the Admin account and otherwise the whole system would be inoperable?
I can confirm that there are currently NO
There may have been before the above?
NOW AFTER TAKING A BREAK
Success - I have succeeded in changing my password in root and now have access to sudo and this is how it was done!
However, a user account is still locked.
There is still a '3r' after/under 'FD'
If you can see anything else that needs to be corrected, please let me know.
i messed up while installing freebsd into a dual os wannabe system.
Now, how do i del it( so i wouldn't get prompted to choose freebsd during boot?)so that i could try installing a different flavour of linux?
cheers:eek: (1 Reply)
I created tar files for directories using this command:
tar -cvf * >tarfile
what happened was I got a file tarfile with a list of the files and it took the first file in each directory and overwrote it with the actual tar file. I've been trying to figure out since yesterday what I did... (2 Replies)
Hi
Guy,
In my system there were some cronjob were already scheduled. and somehow I want to enter one new cronjob with crontab. So I isssue crontab temp.txt. it scheduled that job but now it's showing me only this job with crontab -l. but I can not see the old cronjob list that already set up.... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I have messed up with my .bashrc file (something I have deleted) and now i can't login back to system..
any Idea..
I can do login with other login and password.. but I dont have root password because of security reason...
If I ask root then It will take about 4 -5 days to go... (4 Replies)
Ok, a couple weeks ago I was fixing a cron report about perl not happy with 'locale' info (LANG and LC not set). As a result, I was experimenting with setting the correct 'locale' in several areas (like /etc/sysconfig/i18n and who knows where). Somehow after a reboot, as soon as the OS starts... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Just wanted to know if anyone else has noted that the time-stamp in the history is all out of whack.:eek:
I've Ubuntu, all patched, and when I ran history, it showed me commands that I ran few weeks ago with today's date. Is this normal?
Here is a snippet:
....
85 2010-06-09 09:03:31... (6 Replies)
Help!!
Seem to have messed up my path, as I keep getting command not found error. Could someone please tell whats wrong or how to fix it.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:$PATH
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I have AIX 5.3 with oracle 10g ( test server). While trying to create RAW disk for Oracle ASM I have accidentally messed with rootvg (hdisk0 & hdisk1)
When I do
# lspv hdisk0
0516-066 : Physical volume is not a volume group member.
Check the physical volume name specified. ... (4 Replies)
OK, so I just messed myself up. Thinking the /var/opt/ignite/data/INDEX files was static, I manually edited the file and added 2 more OS's to it. During an Install it only showed the first OS (started with 11.31, 3 versions then added a 11.23, and a 11.11 stanza's).
The 11.23 and 11.11 never... (2 Replies)