/etc/passwd deleted

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

You're welcome and next time watch what you're deleting

You can't imagine how many files i lost when i started using linux

So many photos and music lost ehhh those were the days

[hcvv]

Hm, I would forget those about services that can not be started. You do not really need them IMHO. But it is a pitty that it still needs the passwd file.

After that last message, you are sure you ar not loged in? Type the return key a few times.

How did you install? As long as you have any bootable CD/DVD that can run on itself (live CD, but also install ones with rescue mode, also from another openSUSE version or even from another Linux distribution) that would be OK.

BTW there is a second important file that holds information about users and login: /etc/shadow. Users have their passwords there and in general it has entries for every user in the same sequence as /etc/passwd. So when you restore a password.old check in /etc/shadow (especialy at the end) if there are more/less uers there. There is also shadow.old file which must correspond with passwd.old. So you could mv both to be the actual ones (but make a copy of shdow first).

[ionpetrache]

Originally Posted by hcvv

Hm, I would forget those about services that can not be started. You do not really need them IMHO. But it is a pitty that it still needs the passwd file.

After that last message, you are sure you ar not loged in? Type the return key a few times.

How did you install? As long as you have any bootable CD/DVD that can run on itself (live CD, but also install ones with rescue mode, also from another openSUSE version or even from another Linux distribution) that would be OK.

BTW there is a second important file that holds information about users and login: /etc/shadow. Users have their passwords there and in general it has entries for every user in the same sequence as /etc/passwd. So when you restore a password.old check in /etc/shadow (especialy at the end) if there are more/less uers there. There is also shadow.old file which must correspond with passwd.old. So you could mv both to be the actual ones (but make a copy of shdow first).

I'll try a liveCD! I tried to boot in single user mode because I didn't have a liveCD and I installed OpenSuse from a DVD but ... now I don't have a dvdrom unit I only have a cdrom unit...it's a little bit complicated. Anyway thanks a lot for helping me.