Re: renamed root account, how2 recover

From: Werner Mohren (mohren@orn.mpg.de)
Date: Mon Oct 24 2005 - 10:55:47 EDT


Werner Mohren wrote:

I solved it myself: with webadmin add user root (id=0, don't create
home-dir ) :-).
It add root into passwd & a second root-passwd into shadow. Then u can
hack again.

> Hi,
> editing the passwd-file of a remote system over a slow line with vi,
> inadvertently renamed the root entry ( into xxxxroot, shadow still has
> root-passwd).
> How do I overcome this mess :-( ?
>

-- 
Werner Mohren
Systems & Network Manager
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Seewiesen
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