[nzlug] Help: Trouble after LDAP + NSS configuration

[Nevyn]

On Feb 14, 2008 1:44 PM, Roland Hill <rolandh at ak.planet.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> On Thu, February 14, 2008 1:35 pm, Howard wrote:
> > Grub will likely be set up with single user mode as a line item for
> > selection.  No need to edit any grub entry just arrow down to the
> > correct line. At least my Ubuntu setup is like that.... so I assume your
> > 'k' version is too.
> >
> > You'll likely have to press 'esc' to get into the grub selection menu
> > though if you don't normally see it on boot.
>
> Hi Howard,
>
> I have 3 items on the Grub menu:
>
> - Boot from current kernel
> - Boot from current kernel (recovery mode)
> - memtest
>
> The title of the second one escapes me somewhat, however it has the same
> result as a 'normal' boot, i.e my original post.
>
> We must catch up sometime......(especially if you have successfully done
> LDAP + NSS!).
>
> --
> Roland

Hi Roland,

The recovery mode should supposedly boot you into single user mode. If
it's still coming up with an authentication problem (which it should
because it's not supposed to authenticate at all in single user mode)
you could try changing the linux line in grub (press esc during boot,
hit 'e' and then find the line that starts with linux and hit e again)
and adding "init=/sbin/init" to the end. If this doesn't work, you'll
probably have to go down the livecd route.

The issue I have with using livecd's is:
a) there are alternative ways which allow you to use your system
rather than having to go through the trouble of a livecd
b) in my experience, they can sometimes be more trouble than they're
worth. I've tried to do things like backup data from a defunct windows
installation only to find that they don't have ntfs support or no
samba support or something equally as irritating.