I need to login as root , when linux starts to show login window
But it shudnt be as
1) spawning a new terminal and do commands lik startx -- :3
2) without going in recovery mode
I need to login through login window as normal process
When I try to login root from my normal user, I can see this:
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Cannot exec /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server: File or directory doesn't exist
(Translateted from my nativ language)
I think that is my bad shell configuration so I check file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and see in the end (this lines couse this bug):
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Match User root
ChrootDirectory /home
AllowTCPForwarding no
X11Forwarding no
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Can you help me?
I've been pasting my proftpd.conf configuration file below
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Is there some special file that I could delete before re-creating the user?
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2. is that the best method?
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rpm -q --verify coreutils
.....UG.. /bin/basename
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