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Hi All,

I changed the root user home directory to /home/root for some testing purpose, afterwards the logged user name its showing "I have no name" instead of root and also when we want to su to root its giving root user doesnot exist, so I tried to add the root user then its giving root user exists. I checked the passwd and shadow file they are fine. I started the gdm-restart, gdm-safe-restart and configured /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file also. Am able to login in single user mode but no other run levels.

So, please give me some solutions.

Regards
Shashidhar.B

What's the output of grep root /etc/passwd /etc/shadow | cat -vet?

What method did you use to change root's home directory?

usermod -d /home/root root
by using this I changed root user home directory. in passwd and shadow file details of root user is showing everything fine like user name, group name, uid, gid, etc.. and it showed home dir as /home/root. after that I changed the root home dir to /root by using usermod -d /root root. After this when I check passwd and shadow files in those root's home dir is /root only. I tried with replacing passwd file with passwd- file also but its not working.

you did not add as again you have assign the /root directory or not if you didn't then assign it.

or check the /etc/nsswitch.conf it should be something like this:

# Example:
#passwd: files nisplus nis
#shadow: files nisplus nis
#group: files nisplus nis

passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files

#hosts: db nis files nisplus nis dns
hosts: files dns

if you did change then allow it to look for local files