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with wrong pam_environment unable to login

Asked by tigerswing2

Hi,

I made some mistakes in ~/.pam_environment file, the wrong changes caused the login failure. I could not login in system. I only have one super account. And I tried to press ctrl-alt-f1 to enter into full screen login mode, however I still couldn't login.

Can any body help?

Many thanks.

tiger

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you hold SHIFT at boot, select recovery mode then select root you can then edit the file in cli with:

nano /home/foo/.pam_environment

obviously change foo for your actual username. Eg:

nano /home/andy/.pam_environment

You can save the changes and exit nano by pressing CTRL+X, then press Y follolwed by ENTER. You can then run:

reboot

and attempt to log in again.

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tigerswing2 (tigerswim2) said : 		#2

thanks for you replay.

I have tried your solution, however it prompted me "read-only file system" when I tried to save the changes in the file. Any more suggestions?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Sounds like an inconsistent file system. Boot to the live CD and fsck the partition

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