Root account GONE

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Sun Nov 7 19:28:52 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 14:24 -0500, Travis Newman wrote:
> 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.

That's bad. Try booting into single user mode, you should automatically
be root when you do that. If that works, try adding root again. If this
fails I thin you are screwed, but there may be other options I don't
know (I am no linux guru).
-- 
Dennis K.
  And that's the way the cookie crumbles!





More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list