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Asked by ITGLA in Mandrake Linux, Linux Setup, Linux Networking
We are running an sftp/ftp server on a Mandrake 8 linux box. I messed around with the /etc/passwd file and changed the user ID and group ID to 0:0 for just one user, thats all I did. After that we weren't able to login to machine at all. I can boot into failsafe mode and run graphic option and it asks for the root password and I enter it in and it works.. and I can get on to the system but I still can't login to ftp or sftp using any of the users. Also something weird in the GUI mode I can run terminal.. it just opens and closes. I also noticed something else odd when I boot it up normally it goes to our login prompt which usually then opens to a command line, well when I login as ROOT and use the right password it blinks and goes back to the user prompt, but if I use ROOT and just random passwords it always says incorrect login as with using the right password it doesn't just blinks and goes back to the user login. I didn't touch anything else in the passwd file at all. I also copied over the backup of the passwd, shadow, and group files.. any help as soon as possible would be appreciated as it is a company machine. Thanks!
20091021-EE-VQP-81 - Hierarchy / EE_QW_2_20070628
