login problem

[charu86]

am using ubuntu along with vista.

i made some changes in passwd- file. it was root entry values. from 0 i changed it to 1000, so that i can log in as root ( i changed it to 1000, as my normal user value's 1000)

now ubuntu is not accepting any kind of input at all. no keybord, no mouse or touchepad.

i can work in windows and can give commands when the grub loader comes up( with e and c options)

any help??

[Irithori]

Bad move.
You degraded your root user to a normal user.

Therefore all actions, that have to be done as root at startup or elsewhere (think startup of daemons, change of system files, etc) will fail.

• Get a live-cd such as knoppix,
• boot it
• mount your root partition
• give the root user the UID 0 in passwd.
• unmount the root partion
• reboot

Then it should work again.

In general you should not work as root, unless you have to.