RE: Passwd file problem

1998-04-21 Thread Trenton D. Adams
> Subject: RE: Passwd file problem > > > > > On 20-Apr-98 Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: > > For some reason my passwd file is empty and I cant login as root, how can > > I resolve this problem? > > Have you tried just hitting <-Enter at the password prompt?

RE: Passwd file problem

1998-04-21 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 20-Apr-98 Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: > For some reason my passwd file is empty and I cant login as root, how can > I resolve this problem? Have you tried just hitting <-Enter at the password prompt? --- A prune isn't a vegetable; a cabbage is a vegetable. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FA

Re: Passwd file problem

1998-04-20 Thread adam
On 20 Apr, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: > For some reason my passwd file is empty and I cant login as root, how can > I resolve this problem? > Thanks a lot... Boot off of a rescue disk, mount the root partition, and reconstruct /etc/passwd. If you need step by step instruction

Re: Passwd file problem

1998-04-20 Thread Abandon_All_Hope
> For some reason my passwd file is empty and I cant login as root, how can > I resolve this problem? > Thanks a lot... What do you mean? What is empty. The whole file, just passwd's what. Can anyone log in? Can you su to root? Do you have a backup of the /etc/passwd. Can you replace /etc/passwd

Passwd file problem

1998-04-20 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
For some reason my passwd file is empty and I cant login as root, how can I resolve this problem? Thanks a lot... __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Ti