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Jonathan Melhuish wrote: | It's been a long few weeks! | | You might remember a little while back I posted | several messages trying to figure out what the hell | was up with my web server. With your help, I | correctly identified it as hard disk corruption and we | managed to back up the whole drive just in time - the | drive gave up the ghost shortly afterwards! | | Anyway, the hard disk has been replaced and my RaQ | reloaded. Great, just restore the backups and my | server will be exactly how it was before. Except that | "as before" means corrupted and generally broken! | | So I'm trying to just restore the config files as | necessary, not the binaries. I started by restoring | everything in /etc, that seemed like a good place to | start. Is there anything else I should restore? | (apart from /home) | | My current problem concerns authentication. My | services on my server (including email) seem to use | PAM for authentication. When I try to check my emails | (via POP/qpopper), for instance, it says: | | "-ERR [AUTH] PAM authentication failed for user "ray": | Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication | info. (9)" | | The entries in /etc/passwd currently look a bit like | this: | | "ray:x:191:100:Raymond:/home/sites/site19/users/ray:/bin/badsh" | | I understand that the "x" represents the password, as | it is then looked up in /etc/shadow. Except that the | entries in /etc/shadow don't seem to have a password | either! | | "ray:x:12201:0:99999:7:::" | | I reset the password for my own user, "netacclaim", | and could consequently log in without problems. | | Any idea how I can restore my user's passwords? | | Cheers, | | Jon |
1) Log in as root (that still works right ?) 2) Run "passwd ray"
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