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Old 07-11-2012, 08:13 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by aditya3098 View Post
I was trying to change the home dir for root from /tmp/root to /home/root and made the edits to /etc/passwd. I am now unable to ssh into my kindle as it rejects the password. The thing is, if I use the kindle XTerm, and type in 'login', enter in root as user and my password, it works. How can I get the ssh working again?
Also, if I restore the original passwd file, it gets back to normal
Did you create the /home/root directory?

My K5 does not have a /home directory.

Perhaps you should make it /mnt/us/home/root?
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