[nzlug] Help: Trouble after LDAP + NSS configuration

[Nevyn]

On Feb 14, 2008 12:10 PM, Roland Hill <rolandh at ak.planet.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> On Thu, February 14, 2008 9:00 am, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > Roland Hill wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've got myself into a pickle :-(
>
> <---snip------>
>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> I'm stuck......bug**r!
> >>
> > At the grub boot prompt hit any key, hit 'e' for edit and select the
> > 'kernel' line in the list of grub commands. Hit 'e' for edit again, and
> > add 'single' to the end of the line. Hit 'b' to boot and you will be in
> > single user mode. Edit '/etc/groups'.
> >
> > No need of a 'live' CD. Actually, some of the steps above may be
> > slightly different since I'm working from memory.
>
> Thanks Cliff and Nevyn for this advice.
>
> I'll try tonight and see how I go. Yay another learning lesson (but I'd
> much prefer not to break things!).
>
> --
> Roland

I remember installing Debian on a laptop and after about 1/2 an hour
of configuring I sat there thinking to myself "now what?"

With Windows it was this constant struggle to get things looking and
acting the way I wanted them to. My own use of Linux is experimental
rather than just getting the job done.

Breaking things is kind of fun (except when you find that you haven't
broken anything at all - there's a pending bug report and nothing
appears to be happening).