Alan Pope wrote:
2009/6/8 Adam Spiers <adam(a)adamspiers.org>rg>:
Any reason why you can't just run 'sudo
passwd' straight after every
fresh install of Ubuntu? I'm 99% sure that's what I did (it's been a
while though).
You can.
The OP didn't.
Cheers,
Al.
Indeed I had not, since rectified on both VPSes I have.
Also it was a simple case of using the recovery console to reset
permissions on /etc, and thankfully nothing beneath it.