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From: DragonII
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:34

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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:46:48 GMT, Geoffrey King
<gking@evildomain.dyndns.org> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:42:14 +0100, DragonII wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Having a problem as you can see on the subject line. Can't access any
>> files anymore (at least the ones that root had access to) and that
>> poses a problem.
>> Does anyone have a backdoor solution to this? Thanks in advance.
>
>Boot up in single user mode and edit /etc/passwd. Failing that download
>one of those rescue ISO's off the net and do it that way.

Thanks. It worked. Live and learn...

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