Re: Help please cont.!!!
Steffen Grunewald (steffen@gfz-potsdam.de)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:32:18 +0200 (MET DST)
Woody wrote:
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|> €I forgot to mention.....the error, "You don't exist, Go away!" also appears when I try to do a 3 finger salute!!!! Can anyone explain this?!?!?! How in the hell can one do a 3 finger salute and get this message!!! I am totally stumped!! I mean literally, I cannot get into my box....I have tried the following:
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|> 1. Maintenance mode, edit passwd file to reflect root::0:0.......
|> NOTHING, Can't login
|>
|> 2. Tried to login in regularly with other users, NOTHING
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|> 3. Try to do a warm reboot, Ctrl-Alt-Delete.....message, "You don't exist, Go away!"
|>
|> A trojan horse comes to mind as I have downloaded some prebuilt binaries from some "respectible" servers, aka. redhat.com, cdrom.com, sunsite.unc.edu....etc....Like I said in my previous message....I have never ran into this since using linux since 1996.....I am stumped and cannot get into my box!!!
Looks like your utmp file doesn't exist anymore, has the wrong permissions
or something like that (or was it wtmp ?)
[text/html is unsupported, treating like TEXT/PLAIN]
Please stop that. Noone wants to read the same text twice.
And most of us aren't native HTML speakers anyway...
BTW, try to cut your lines.
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