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- From: uwek@ifi.uio.no (Uwe Sigurd Valentin Kubosch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: CRISIS! MultiUser FS - Lost multiuser.group
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 07:32:35 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- Message-ID: <4can2j$ad4@glitnir.ifi.uio.no>
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-
- Well, I installed MUFS successfully and was very pleased with myself.
- I left most of my files unprotected not feeling any need to protect
- them until I moved my machine to a more public place than my bedroom.
-
- After a nightmare about deletion of all files on my harddisk I decided
- it could not hurt to protect sys: at least. That way my setup would
- be safe. What I wanted to do was to setowner to root on all files on
- sys: and then give read and execute priviliges to all in the group of
- root. Was this wrong, anybody?
-
- I did the above with some trouble. I had the LimitedDosProtect (or
- something) set as default (unknowingly), and the only program to set
- the group bits was MProtect. All was fine.
-
- Then for some reason I could not save the multiuser.group file.
- CygnusEd saved an empty file in its place and made a backup (.bak)
- file. Now I cannot log in! The sys: partition is protected from
- reading by all except the group of root, but the group of root does
- not exist, and anyway you start as "nobody" and can't even read the
- login program and libs.
-
- Why can I not log in? The passwd file is ok, and all libs are
- provided, but still I get login failed.
-
- I repent and will do amends if just someone could tell me how to
- access my computer again. The passwd file is intact, I have a copy of
- the multiuser.group file, and I have copies of all the
- multiuser.keyfiles.
-
-
- Please help!
-
-
- uwek
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