-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I don't see why he'd need to boot from a livecd, since he's still able to login as root, and he should be able to perform what you describe while logged in as root on the actual system. Greg On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:37:47AM +0100, Chris Norman wrote: > If that fails, bot from a live CD such as GRML, and find the user's entry in > /etc/passwd, and remove the capital x after their user name, don't remove > the colons though. > > HTH, > > Chris Norman > <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com --> - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFECuB7s9z/XlyUyARAkKUAJ4wZaKA97EU8APTPOIKfjN4RuUmjwCg2BgP dgfhw8NarPbeVsAfmuycj0Q= =Dgqx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----