Hi,

I am getting "Permission Denied" message on the Linux console.

This appears whenever I start my Linux machine, this message displays continuously and stops me to do anything.

To get rid of this, what I do is to restart the Linux machine and then on lilo prompt I type "linux single", after typing this all the services started normally but as you know by typing "linux single" the control will then shift to bash prompt.

Please help me in this regard, because I am unable to run my Linux machine in normal mode.

Can you log in as root?

You'd type su to do this.

If so, you may have to faff with some permissions (have a look at man chmod).

Make sure you have permissions to /bin/bash, and your home directory.

If you can't log in as root, you'll need to reset the root password,like this :

 Press shift key at the boot prompt and enter as, boot: Linux init=/bin/sh

    This causes the system to boot the default linux kernel (with lable as 'linux') and run /bin/sh instead of its standard init. Now you have gained root privileges and a root shell. / is currently mounted read-only and many disk partitions have not been mounted yet.

    # mount -n -t remount,rw /
    # mount -avt nonfs,noproc,nosmbfs
    # cd /etc
    # vi passwd
    # vi shadow

    If the second data field in /etc/passwd is "x" for every username, your system uses shadow passwords, and you must edit /etc/shadow. To disable the root password, edit the second data field in the password file so that it becomes empty. Now the system can be rebooted and you can log on as root without a password.

HTH

Charlie Harvey,
IT Officer,
People & Planet.

http://peopleandplanet.org


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