You seem to have one Problem:
You forgotten the Password of Your Account? or the Administrator?
With the Ultimate-Boot CD you’r able to unlock your Account again.
You ahve the Problem, that i.e Squid says in Syslog or whatever:
Unable to open admin password file: Permission denied on your Ubuntu System
the fix is easy… try the following
At first we need to know where pam_auth is
run:
- updatedb & locate pam_auth
And then you may become
- # locate pam_auth
output: /usr/lib/squid3/pam_auth
Thereforce, you may need to change to the path accordung the pam_auth
- # chmod u+s /usr/lib/squid3/pam_auth
- # chmod o= /usr/lib/squid3/pam_auth
- # chgrp proxy /usr/lib/squid3/pam_auth
- Please check if Squid 3 is running under user Proxy or squid3 – to do it, run ps aux|grep squid