[NTLUG:Discuss] MAJOR mess

Daniel L. Shipman webmaster at srj.net
Fri Oct 26 18:02:23 CDT 2001


I feel like an idiot!

On accident, as root, editing /etc/passwd in vi, I typed
dd
:wq

This deleted the line:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

>From the /etc/passwd file

Now root does not exist

What do I do?

Any suggestions - please??????????????????????????




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