[ale] stupid sys admin tricks
Robert Karaffa
rkaraff at emory.edu
Mon Jun 26 17:52:01 EDT 2006
hi folks,
i managed to really fmrkl my Mandriva server. Here's my confession:
-i created a new user via Webmin named phoil
-i had Webmin create phoil's home directory in /usr
-bad move, because now /usr is phoil's home directory
-i realized too late that i was fmrkld
-i tried to move phoil's home directory to /usr/phoil (via Webmin)
-suddenly, Webmin doesn't work anymore
-in fact, nothing works anymore
-this is great, isn't it? a public self-inflicted flogging (somebody
get me some salt water!).
okay, i'm trying to rescue my server, so I rebooted from a Mandriva
disk in "rescue" mode.
I mounted all my old partitions under /mnt.
I was able to copy all of the files from /usr/phoil back to /usr, and
I tried to chown all of them to root (chown -R root *), but I still
cannot login after reboot. I'm missing something here and I haven't
figured it out yet.
Would anybody be willing to hold my arm up so that I can flog myself
some more?
Would anybody be willing to toss me a clue?
-Bob K.
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