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[ILUG] Users have dissappeared

[ILUG] Users have dissappeared

Conor Wynne weeboy at conorwynne.com
Thu Apr 15 16:40:56 IST 2004


> Hi,
>
> I have a big problem.  The server that my company uses to store profiles
> and mail files on refuses to let anyone (including root) login.  After
> trawling through the log I quickly saw that the / partition was out of
> space.  I removed some files that weren't needed and restarted the
> machine.

OOps, so you may have deleted some important ones?
What all did you delete? /var /etc /usr???

>
> It starts but if I look in Webmin, there are no users listed and it still
> won't let anyone login.

Can the user still login locally/ssh to the server? /etc/passwd still
exists right?

Conor Wynne
Dublin
Irlande.



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