IF you have been hacked, you should just backup your data and reinstall.

Are you sure theres no other way you could have lost your /etc/passwd
file?  That's basically the problem - /etc/passwd is either missing or
corrupted - and thus it can't find the root user.  I don't think shadow
has much to do with it.

If you can copy /etc/passwd from a good RH machine of the same version,
and then run the passwd command from single-user mode, you should be at
least in a little better shape.

Jon


On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Mr. L.R. Adrian wrote:

> Assistance is both urgent and appreciated.
> Obviously i have been compromised.
> I run 7.3 Valhalla.
> i went to login to my server as root today and recieved the message.
> "Usr root does not exist"
> upon research this is in fact the case.
> i boot from grub and as the boot sequence progresses it gives:
> getpwnam failed for  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swap Space [OK]
> I can log in as user only.
> I think it is my shadow thats been breached.
> boot disk does not even work. {possibly because of an earlier kernel config.
> This is my only server ......please help if you can.
> Les
>
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