[nzlug] Help: Trouble after LDAP + NSS configuration

Roland Hill rolandh at ak.planet.gen.nz
Wed Feb 13 21:50:34 NZDT 2008


On Wed, February 13, 2008 9:39 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>> Can somebody advise me how I can use a live CD (I assume) to either
>> access the pam.d files and revert their settings, or implement the
>> fix?

> Boot off live cd.
> become root
> mkdir /old
> mount /dev/sda1 /old  ( or guess your root partition if it's not that
> and you can't find out )
> $editorofyourchoice /old/etc/group and add an extra line using an unique
> group id to define nvram
> umount /old
> reboot

Thanks Steve.

Does it matter that the box had a RAID 1 configuration?

Does that mean I need to try /dev/md0 (or 1 or 2)?

Many thanks for your reply. Just downloading knoppix right now.

(forgot to mention in first post that box is running kubuntu 7.10)

-- 
Roland




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