[nzlug] Help: Trouble after LDAP + NSS configuration

[Steve Holdoway]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:46:52 +1300 (NZDT)
"Roland Hill" <rolandh at ak.planet.gen.nz> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, February 14, 2008 4:21 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> >
> > I think you may mean "init=/bin/bash" ???
> >
> > Steve
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Unfortunately:
> 
> - single mode/recovery mode does not let me into the system
> - adding init=/sbin/init doesn't either
> - adding init=/bin/bash comes up with a 'does not exits error', then
> proceeds to a Busybox console.
> 
> Looks like I will have to try a Live CD.......
> 
> --
> Roland

It looks like your softraid isn't being initiated. If you're using mirroring, then you may be able to boot off one of the physical disks into single user mode, and then update both copies of /etc/group. With raid 5 it'll be a bit more tricky!

I reckon the live CD's by far the best way too!

Steve
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