How to re-gain root?

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From: 'Chris Harris' B. Harris
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 00:00

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Last evening, I discovered that some of our passwd file entries had users 
in group 0, definitely a bad plan.  I changed, using plain old vi, them 
all to 15, the number of our user group, and thought everything would be okay.
Unfortunately, whenever I su now, it complains about not being able to find
an auth entry for root.  Looking back now, I guess it would have been 
much wiser to use vipw, but now it's too late.

Now I'm looking for suggestions as to how I can fix this.  I figure if I 
go back to the console and boot of the CD, I'd be able to do something.  
But, seeing that the console is a few miles from here, it'd be nice to 
have some idea of what I was doing being I headed over there.  Any ideas?

Thanks!

-Chris

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