Root account GONE

[Travis Newman]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:08 -0500, Travis Newman wrote:
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>>I can't su -. I can't sudo. I can't login as root. I can't add users 
>>because that needs a root account. I don't remember deleting the root 
>>account, but it's not there anymore. Whenever I try to sudo it says 
>>there's no passwd file for root, and obviously I can't make that passwd 
>>file without root. Graaarr. Is there anything I can do or am I screwed?
>>
>>Travis
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>Do /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow still exist?
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Yes, they're both there. root is nowhere to be found in /etc/passwd, and 
I have no access to /etc/shadow, but they're there.