Re: Lost root password

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From: Michael Dwyer
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:00

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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: Okay, something seriously weird is going on here.  But first, the good
: news.

"What did you do Ray?" - Ghostbusters
Uh... Stupid answer -- undo whatever you did. :)
More serious answer: You didn't try to put comments or blank
lines in either your passwd or shadow file, did you?  I did that.
Once.  Oops.
Is the little symbol correct in passwd that tell it to look in shadow?
Try this:  enter single user mode, then run /bin/login and see what
happens...

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Date: 1999/12/30
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