Root account GONE

[Travis Newman]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:08:24PM -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?
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>How did your system get into this state?
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>You should be able to correct it by booting into recovery mode from the GRUB
>menu.
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Recovery mode didn't work. But I don't remmeber at this point what I was 
doing, but I accidentaly deleted my root account. I just added the root 
entries back to the passwd and shadow files with a livecd and it worked 
fine.

Travis